The tech giant said that update will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus and much more to your iPhone this ...

Unicode’s emoji set has been adopted by major companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, as well as major programming languages like Java and XML among others.

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...

"Any Unicode character can be presented with text presentation," states the proposal, while emoji presentation is currently up for interpretation by the artist employed by the app or platform ...

Every year, the governing body Unicode adds new emoji to the nearly 3,000 already in existence. Here's how it picks the additions.

In 2010, emoji were included in Unicode so that they could be universalized. But this setup has put Unicode in the often strange position of being the world's emoji gatekeepers. Recently, Unicode ...

Unicode released its report on Nov. 3, and while there is no set date for the arrival of these diverse emoji, the report is a clear indication that Unicode is listening and taking action.

A n estimated 74% of Americans use emojis every day. We use them in text messages, Facebook posts and when we chat online. You can even text a pizza emoji to Domino’s to order a pizza. Yet ...

It could take some time for them to incorporate all the changes: Unicode 8.0 was released in June 2015, but the taco emoji wasn’t available to Apple users until October.