What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

The Unicode Consortium is recognizing several skin tones and gendered variations in personas like fairies, vampires and magi.

Unicode doesn't consider emoji data that comes from petitions, corporate sponsorship, or nonpublic data sources, judging them too easy to manipulate.

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with ...

Android 16 DP2 adds support for the 8 new emoji from the Unicode 16.0 standard, including face with bags under the eyes.

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

Bad news for emoji keyboard users: the peach emoji, frequently used to connote one's butt in text conversations, will reportedly appear significantly less suggestive with the new Apple 10.2 update.

The Unicode Consortium has proposed one quarter the number of new emoji it did last year. Experts say slowing down is the smart move.

Unicode isn't all about emoji; the Unicode Consortium also standardizes those thousands and thousands of characters you can form by typing alphanumerical codes into your computer.

Emoji, the little icons and characters that you send and receive every day, fall under the jurisdiction of the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining ...