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Without a doubt, one of the most popular apps on smartphones – any smartphones, really – is the messaging app. Billions of sentence long messages go back and forth between our iPhones and device’s ...

First things first: If you’re going to examine emoji usage, you need some specific emoji on which to focus. To narrow down the field, the GroupLens researchers used a data set of about 100 million ...

Ever tried but failed to find an emoji to describe that certain je ne sais quoi while you’re texting a friend? Wish you could take the best of the “surprised face” emoji and add a bit of “smiling cat” ...

A study by the GroupLens Research team at the University of Minnesota examines the variations between some popular emoji presentations and how they are perceived. The most widely misinterpreted is the ...

Like side parts, skinny jeans, and girlbossing, emoji can be categorized as dated internet ephemera. These days, certain symbols, like , are seen as especially cringe and — even worse — Millennial.

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

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The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ are loaded with tons of neat features. From big Infinity screens, water-resistance and much more. That isn’t all though, the company also delivered over 600 Galaxy S8 ...

The fourth annual World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing) is Monday, celebrating the explosion in use of the little characters that have changed the way people around the world communicate. Some have ...