There comes a moment in the life of any operating system when an unforeseen event will tragically cut its uptime short. Whether it’s a sloppily written driver, a bug in the handling of an edge case or ...

Scrolling through Instagram recently, I saw a picture that an old friend from high school had posted of his dad with the caption announcing his father’s death. It was terrible news, and I immediately ...

This day and age come with no shortage for means of expression. Whether it's the occasional meme, GIF, or Snaps, modern communication has evolved into a medium in which each situation, however nuanced ...

NEW YORK (AP) — We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a ...

When the Unicode Consortium announced a few years ago that users would be able to modify preexisting emoji, and choose from a palette of skin-tone options, those humans who didn’t themselves have Bart ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

Facebook has had a similar set of reactions since 2016. But Wong’s leak shows that Twitter could be taking a slightly different path when it comes to which moods it wants users to express: while it ...