Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Look to the eastern sky, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment thanks to the crescent ...

as the iPhone introduced their own emoji keyboard and competing phone companies followed suit. The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the ...

Credit: Mashable Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable There are also a few new plays on the traditional yellow smiley-face emoji, including a rather stunning mind-blown face ...

By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character). Here is how it works: Unicode assigns variation selectors (U+FE00–U ...