Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

A small digital image can be worth a thousand words. Loudly Crying Face. Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Smiling Face with Heart Eyes. Fire. Hand Clap. If you’ve spent any amount of time texting your ...

Can you decipher these ancient hieroglyphics? In the age of hyper-evolving tech, the innovative emojis of today make those of yesteryear — read: 20 to 30 years ago — seem digitally prehistoric.

Also not cute: Emoji 4 Porn, a short-lived feature on Pornhub that sexualized innocent fruits and vegetables; monkey symbols used as racist imagery; drug dealers using emojis to flog their wares; gun ...

From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many of our messages. While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret ...

Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

It’s the year of the emoji. Or at least that’s what the Oxford Dictionary would have us believe. That venerable arbiter of language usage has selected the “face with tears of joy” emoji as the “word” ...

If there was ever any doubt that we’re living in the age of the emoji, it’s clearly behind us: A Dutch architect has incorporated the smiling faces into the facade of a building in the central ...

Born from the words for “pictures” and “written characters,” the emoji is a natural extension of the visual symbolism that suffuses Japanese culture and public life, notes Keith Houston in his book, ...