It’s been nearly a decade since the aubergine (that’s Queen’s English for eggplant) was divested of its humble role as a mere fruit and thrust into the spotlight as a sex symbol — as in, an actual ...

It's a bad day to be the bleeding syringe emoji. For years, the baffling symbol — depicted on most devices as a syringe spewing flecks of blood (or Kool-Aid...?) — was the grim lone option for anyone ...

Hopefully you were sitting down before you read that headline. The bean emoji has officially been approved for release on Android devices, along with 106 others. All praise the bean. The bean emoji is ...

Redhead emoji just moved one step closer to reality. Emoji with red hair are on the agenda for the next meeting of the Unicode Technical Committee, the organization that sets standards for the emoji ...

The latest Gboard beta is now showing the new Expressive redesign and updated emoji picker changes we previously saw in ...

Android’s emoji are known for being just awfully designed. It’s not just a matter of style—in some cases they’re so different from other platforms that they can lead to some serious misunderstandings.

Who decides what emojis get made? If you're wondering why it took all these years for the donkey emoji to become a thing, the decision is made by the information technology standard known as Unicode.

Where were the soft masa tortillas, cilantro, and onion championed by a more traditional Mexican taco? “This is almost like if Doritos Locos Tacos appeared in Webster’s Dictionary as an exemplary form ...

The lack of a redhead emoji amongst the hundreds of other emojis in existence has been a (rightful) sore spot within the ginger community for years. The fiery-haired population had been trying to ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium–which decides upon and standardizes emoji–added more skin tones to its catalog. Today, Unicode took another step towards making emoji more diverse: emoji are finally ...

There are emoji for pears, koalas, and jack-o’-lanterns; for a pine tree, a pizza slice, and a dragon’s head on a plate. But there are no emoji for black people. That seems likely to change soon: ...