Google is introducing over 160 new emoji in the Android 16 QPR3 update next March. Here's all the new emoji coming to your Pixel phone!

While Apple is bringing a handful of new emoji to its users with the upcoming release of iOS 10.2, the Unicode Consortium today approved 51 new emoji as part of the Unicode 10 release. The new emoji ...

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 ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the mid-December. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not be ...

If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

It’s official: The Unicode Consortium recently confirmed 72 new emoji for the Unicode 9 set, which is scheduled to drop later in June of 2016. If you’re wondering how to get the Unicode 9 emoji, ...

Today, the Unicode Consortium has released Unicode version 7.0, adding 2,834 new characters. Unicode is the industry standard that regulates encoding and representation of text across computers, with ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

Jennifer Daniel leads the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee. She tells us how emojis are chosen and discusses their importance in the world of language. Language has been evolving for as long as ...