There’s a very important battle happening in America and it’s been a long and stressful one: the fight for a more racially diverse emoji selection. Every day we stare at our phones and wonder what ...

As the number and variety of emojis grow, the language is gradually becoming more diverse and reflective of the people who use it. Its progress plods along one emoji at a time, propelled by women like ...

May is Jewish American History Month, and organizations nationwide are joining together to celebrate Jewish heritage while continuing to combat the rising threat of antisemitism. Executive director of ...

Mosquitoes are more than a spoiler of backyard barbecues. They threaten more than half the world’s population with their disease-spreading bites. In fact, mosquitoes are deadlier — by far — than ...

Drumroll please: The most popular brand-new emoji of 2025, based on the Unicode 16.0 list, is ... Face with Bags Under the ...

It’s hard to believe, but our smartphones have yet to feature a lobster emoji. On Sept. 22, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) sent a letter to Unicode Consortium, the organization behind smartphone emojis. In ...

One socially conscious company is making your emoji keyboard a little less perfect in an effort to tackle food waste. Hungry Harvest, a startup service that delivers "recovered produce" to consumers' ...

The emoji are bright yellow, with artificially long eyelashes and crisscrossed eyes. One’s tongue lolls out; the other’s mouth is zippered shut. They are painted against the pink facade of a Manhattan ...

Despite a 19-page proposal (and three revisions!), the white wine emoji still won't see the light of day yet. If you’ve ever scrolled through your phone looking for a white wine emoji, you’re not ...