Photo by TENGKU BAHAR/AFP via Getty Images "There is one particular ... flag emojis cover the largest category in the current text icons approved by Unicode Consortium. More than 200 out of ...

The updates come from a California-based nonprofit called Unicode Consortium. Each year, the emoji subcommittee releases new emoji that will update the existing keyboard. Jennifer Daniel ...

Apple successfully pushed to have a rifle emoji removed from the standardized collection of icons, saying it would not support the image on iOS ... 2015 at the quarterly Unicode gathering, which ...

The emoji icons ... Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic," the proposal explained. "Yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images ...

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x ...

Musk's new logo for X also resembles a Unicode character and a Monotype font ... bird logo has been exactly that — a unique stencil image of a small bird that the general public has come ...

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the ... and the widely known emoji images used to convey or punctuate emotion in written, electronic communication.

and a slightly uncomfortable biting lip icon. As usual, the new emoji and variations of existing emoji are coming thanks to a new version of the Unicode standard that dictates the standard set of ...