ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture. These ...

While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded hands emoji. While this emoji can be understood to mean ...

In the wake of National Emoji Day, here are the nine new emoji announced by the Unicode Consortium. Here’s all you need to ...

World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji . It's a day that celebrates how emoji help people express themselves in a ...

Happy World Emoji Day! This Emoji Day, let’s take a look at the most-used emojis of 2025. Are you one of their regular users?

July 17 is observed as World Emoji Day, a global celebration of those tiny digital symbols that say so much with so little.

The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor and humor.

Emojis in text messages boost relationship satisfaction by making people feel emotionally heard and connected.

Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and more specific, than words. That’s because you can’t separate the meaning of ...

Do you find it difficult to choose the perfect smiley-face emoji when trying to convey happy emotions in a text message? Although many emojis look very similar, it seems there are countless ...

Estate Planning Smiley Faces in Serious Places: Emoji Use Pops Up in Legal Battles Over Inheritances Estate planning attorney notes how emojis are crossing over from casual conversation to litigation.