You’ve heard about the words of the year—Oxford’s vape, Merriam-Webster’s culture, and Dictionary.com’s exposure, to name a few. And perhaps you’re even eagerly awaiting the American Dialect Society’s ...

For many people, speaking in emoji is almost as natural as speaking in, well, words. However, less than two decades ago, the collection of symbols was just a blip on the digital horizon. You may be ...

In digital everyday communication, emojis and emoticons are indispensable. But do the terms not mean the same thing? That is actually not the case. The written—or more precisely, typed—word is no ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

In today’s hyper-connected world, no online conversation or chat would be complete without the ever-present emoji as an efficient shorthand for expressing one’s feelings or vibe. But before there were ...

Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100 ...

THE man who created the emoticon 33 years ago has an ambitious new project, and time is running out for him to make it a reality. And that’s exactly why it was invented 33 years ago, when a group of ...