There are many reasons why emojis are so popular. One of the main ones though is that they allow people to express emotions in a simple but effective way. Online written communication – communication ...

Hieroglyphics are making an unlikely 21st century comeback, and it's all thanks to Millennials' insatiable appetite for texting. Young people might hate history class, but they can't get enough of the ...

Editor’s Note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...

Just when you thought speaking in 140 characters was teaching us all a whole new art of expression, emojis are set to change the rules of the game all over again. We are living at a time when a is the ...

Emoji might be one of the fastest-growing communication methods of the digital age, but a lot of people probably think the whole thing is silly. Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji ...

The Unicode 18 draft is here! From the long-awaited Pickle to the Lighthouse and Meteor, see the new emojis coming to iOS 27 ...

From a terrain that was predominantly dominated by traditional face-to-face meetings and lengthy email threads, we have transitioned to a realm that embraces a colourful, efficient, and expressive ...

We’ve reached a new level of descent into the world of emoji-based interactions. Starting March 1 of this year, drivers in Queensland, Australia will be able to personalize their license plates with ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...