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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Extremely Happy face Emoji because The Unicode Consortium has just revealed the list of 51 new Emoji characters that could appear on your phone's keyboard starting next year, and ...

There's a vocabulary update for Unicode, the standard for the characters (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) we use on our computers and gadgets all over the world, ensuring that everyone is using ...

Google’s ChromeOS is improving the ability to type special characters, with support for symbols and more now available in the emoji picker. Added in recent stable ChromeOS updates, the emoji picker ...

While the highlight of the OS X 10.10.3 pre-release seed yesterday was the iPhoto replacement app simply called Photos, the beta version of the OS X software update also contains changes to how and ...

Friday is World Emoji Day (yes, it's actually a thing), and Apple used the annual unofficial holiday to unveil some of the little characters coming to iOS devices later this year. The icons were ...

The most used emoji of 2021 across the globe is the character representing tears of joy — and aside from the red heart emoji, other characters don't even come close. Tears of joy accounted for 5% of ...

If the current cast of emoji characters isn't enough for you, I've got good news. We may be getting more. The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization in charge of the Unicode Standard system, ...

Great news for bacon lovers: Soon you’ll be able to express yourself via emoji. The symbol for your favorite cured pork product, along with 71 other characters, is coming out in the next version of ...

The simple answer is: they weren’t chosen, not really. Any child at bedtime asking his or her mother “Mommy, where do emoji come from?” will no doubt go to sleep disappointed. There is no committee ...

It's been a good week for app-inspired nostalgia. On top of last week's Pokémon craze, Disney also has a new app that will provide some throwback joy. The company just launched its new emoji app, ...