When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

At first, the problem seemed small. The “woman facepalming” emoji (🤦🏾‍♀️) sent from Android devices was showing up as a man on Apple devices. This sort of miscommunication happens when two tech ...

Got questions for Jeremy Burge, an emoji historian and Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia? He’s hosting a TNW Answers session TODAY at 4:00PM (CET), ask your questions NOW! While there seems to be an ...

Unicode launched 64 new emojis for 2020 software updates. The emojis feature gender neutral options that undermine heteronormativity. An increasing part of the younger U.S. population cares about ...

Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them ...