There are major pillars of the smartphone’s software that are make-or-break for the entire experience… and then there are emojis. While the little pictures you pop into the chat aren’t all that ...

The inimitable Jennifer Daniel, a Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair, wrote about a new effort to take emojis back to their humble roots. Before we had our gleaming set of 3,633 emoji characters like ...

Google's services spans over a number of areas including online search, maps, mobile services, connectivity and more. Now the company has also announced its efforts in the space of fonts. Google has ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

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Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

A new report by XDA suggests Google may soon separate emoji updates from major Android OS releases. Notably, this means in order to get new emojis, users won’t have to wait for an OS upgrade. Be it ...

We’ve all been there. On Android or Gchat or Gmail, you try to send a crying emoji, or a grin. Basic stuff, really. But when you click the icon, you’re suddenly reminded that Google’s emoji are ...

There's no shortage of quirky emoji – money with wings, moons with faces, piles of poop with smiling mouths. What emoji do lack, according to a team at Google, is a fair representation of professional ...

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, home theater, smartphones, and more. Google finally got the message that these emoji ...