TOKYO — Emoji have exploded from 176 original designs to around 1,800 and counting, as the little symbols conquer the world. Here are a few things to know about hieroglyphics for the smartphone age.

Apple is thinking pink with its latest round of emojis. Thirty-one new emojis — including the highly-requested pink heart — are coming to smartphones next year. Emoji 15.0 is set to be approved this ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning of October. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not ...

Sometimes words aren't enough and the only true way to express how you feel is through emoji. Now, instead of searching through rows of almost 900 symbols, an app will automatically 'translate' ...

World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji ...

A total of 37 new emoji have been released today for use on a variety of platforms. They include popular requests such as a taco, a ‘bottle with popping cork’, a cheese wedge and even a turkey. It ...

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.

In betas of iOS 9.1 and OS X 10.11.1, Apple added a mysterious emoji symbol consisting of an eye inside of a speech bubble. At the time, it was not clear what purpose the mystery emoji served, but as ...

Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman is an expert on internet speech. Lately, he's been rather obsessed with a topic that most lawyers probably have never stopped to think about—the ways ...