IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps without encroaching on their privacy. But is this actually ...

Gen Z co-opted the smiley face emoji, but beware — it means something totally different to them What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn – at least in ...

It may not be a word by the strictest definition – but the emoji commonly known as “face with tears of joy” has been named the “Word” of the Year for 2015 by Oxford Dictionaries.

The eight new emojis coming to your iPhone have been officially revealed, and one is already dividing Apple fans.

An emoji that speaks for the tired masses is coming to little screens soon. One of eight new emoji set to debut late this year and into the next, an exhausted face with bags beneath its eyes is ...

Google product users not yet suffering from under-eye bags still have time. The "Face With Bags Under Eyes" emoji will roll out to Google platforms including Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and Android ...

And one of the emojis that Gen Xs and boomers seem to love above all is the winking face. There are few messages my parents do not seek to enliven with the winking emoji. Others of a certain age ...

At a panel discussion about antisemitism at an alumni event of the Columbia University, three deans were found sending hostile text messages including a vomiting face emoji in a group chat, the ...

The Unicode Consortium has submitted the proposal for Unicode 16, which includes seven new emoji characters like harp, shovel, fingerprint, and face with bags under eyes.

To millennials, the ubiquitous smiling face emoji usually means something good, a positive sentiment, or happy emotions. Gen Zers have a very different take.

In a bid to challenge stereotypes, a 10-year-old UK boy, Teddy Cottle, has started an online petition calling on Apple to redesign the appearance and name of the ‘nerd face’ emoji.