The many faces of emoji just gained a few more — thanks to a web tool put together by 17-year-old developer Giacomo Randazzo which randomly remixes standard yellow-faced emoticons to stir up some new ...

If you're a Snapchat user, you've no doubt noticed the subtle quirks and hidden tools that are uniquely Snapchat. Chief among them: the seemingly random emoji that appear next to your friends' names, ...

Did you recently get engaged? Great, I’ll be replying “💍😍” when you announce it on Instagram. Finish a big project at work and head out the door for a vacation? “🙏🙏.” A picture where you look cool ...

Though simplistically cute, emojis are not as straightforward as they seem. New University of Minnesota research slated for publication next month suggests people interpret popular emojis differently, ...

Emoji is the language of the Internet, and a new Web app is helping you use it to tell stories. Emojinate, a weekend project put together by developer Ramsay Lanier, invites you to translate the ...

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