Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

Microsoft has a Planners app to manage projects, but it’s limited to Microsoft 365 Work accounts. With Loop, you can insert a ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

The update will mean Microsoft Teams users can insert emojis directly from your keyboard "without any distractions", the company added. In a Microsoft 365 roadmap post, the company noted the ...

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

Police have issued a grim warning over the emojis predators use online when they talk to Aussie kids - and why something as simple as a bowl and spoon or slice of pizza could allude to something ...

So to simplify things, Prakash devised a system using emojis: a house 🏠 for “I’m home” and a car 🚙 for “I’m at work.” "It’s simple, and surprisingly effective! I find it ...

What do you call the little yellow coloured icons showing emotions? Did you know that if you have been calling them emojis, then you’ve been using the word wrong? Often when we talk about icons ...

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard.

With an endless array of emojis at our fingertips—and new ones constantly popping up—knowing when and how to use them is more important than ever. This is especially true for the emoji we use ...