Every time you type on your cellphone's keyboard, you're punching in tiny bits of Unicode, a universal standard for creating text, numbers and emoji. Emoji, taken from the Japanese words 絵 "e" ...

Nothing says ‘happy’ like emoji, right? Well, maybe not but this new emoji coding language could brighten up the day of any programmer. Emojicode is a new high-level programming language that can be ...

Emoji: The Background A case in point is Emoji. 5 billion emojis are sent everyday on the Facebook messenger app alone. And over 92% of the world’s 3.2. billion internet users make regular use of ...

The Unicode Consortium wants you to be able to send emoji that look a little bit more like you. Every time you type on your cellphone's keyboard, you're punching in tiny bits of Unicode, a universal ...

This past summer, the Unicode Consortium introduced about 250 new standard emoji, including a spider web, sunglasses and a hand giving the middle finger. Conspicuously missing from the emoji catalog, ...