Google is working on improvements to Chrome OS’s virtual keyboard, including a new dark theme, Unicode 14 emoji, and the ability to type while using Linux apps. For over a year now, Google has been ...

Bad news for emoji keyboard users: the peach emoji, frequently used to connote one's butt in text conversations, will reportedly appear significantly less suggestive with the new Apple 10.2 update.

Emoji are colorful icons baked into the on-screen keyboard of most smartphones that allow users to express a number of words and ideas through pictographs. These including birthday cakes, rainbows, ...

Before Jennifer 8. Lee started working with emoji, communicating a complex thought using only the tiny icons felt a bit like trying to color the entire world with just an eight-pack of Crayolas. You ...

If you are clamoring for more emoji, then you will be excited to hear about all of the options that were announced this past week. Facebook revealed that 1,500 new emoji were added to the Messenger ...

Dozens of new, fun emoji are headed to your phone. Following "a final determination" at a Unicode Consortium Meeting earlier this year — a get together in which I imagine businesspeople arguing ...

New emoji are coming! The organization that approves new emoji before they hit your keyboard has just announced 72 more emoji which will be added to the Unicode standard (Unicode 9.0) later this month ...

In June, the Unicode Consortium — the governing body of all things emoji — will release a new set of of pictographs for your texting pleasure. That’s still a few months out at this point, but ...

Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium had its 149th meeting to approve 51 new emoji as part of Unicode 10.0 — which will be available for mobile devices, laptops, desktops and wearables. The ...

The Unicode Consortium is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every character ...

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