Google is reportedly rolling out an update for the Contacts app that brings more customization and uniqueness to your saves. Users will soon find a "Monogram" tab that lets them customize a ...

Actor Farhan Akhtar celebrated his daughter Akira's 18th birthday on Thursday with a heartfelt post on Instagram. In a sweet ...

In their latest iOS 17.4 update, Apple removed the family emoji that’ve been around for over a decade. Replacing them with these simplistic icons that many find unappealing. So why did Apple do this?

A recent court case in Saskatchewan has shown that the use of an emoji in a text message, understood as the seller’s ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

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

This is especially true for the emoji we use to express love … or is it passion? Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...

The end result is that it’s easier to work out what you’re using and what these icons mean, and therefore, they better convey the message you’ve sent – or received. old pinch emoji new ...

Often when we talk about icons expressing emotions, we tend to use the words emoji and emoticon interchangeably. However, Merriam-Webster has revealed that the two words aren’t the same! ‘Emoticon’ ...

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Readers help support Windows Report. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. You can access the Windows 10 emoji panel anywhere on the computer, even on the lock screen. Keep reading to ...