The Unicode Consortium today released version 10.0.0 of the Unicode Standard, introducing 56 new emoji characters ranging from crazy face and face with monocle to t-rex, pie, and pretzel.

Wear scans your drawing, and then shows matching emoji with the same shape. Tap one, and you can instantly send it to a friend. TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky X Link. BY Sophie Weiner. A fun little site called emoji.ink has arrived, letting users to draw with any of the 722 currently available Unicode emoji.

These include “face with monocle,” “face with symbols over mouth,” “shushing face” and “crazy face.” If past trends are anything to go by, these are going to get big, fast.

These days, emoji are nearly as common as text. Some 6 billion of the minute images are sent around the world every day. But the classic smiley-face emoji has actually been around for a long time ...

As part of Apple's iOS 18.4 update, iPhone users will have access to eight new emoji - but there is one face that everyone already says is their favourite.