Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

Faces in Content Warning are easily customised at the suit station in the house, but you only get three characters, and not all symbols are seemingly allowed. If you just want to stick with letters ...

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.

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 ...

Older people are the only ones now who use the symbols in any great numbers. And the older you are, the more of them you use Older people who don’t want to feel that they’re ‘past it’ are using emojis ...

Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

New faces, foods, animals, people (real and fictional), and articles of clothing could make it into Unicode 10. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make ...

Other emoji on the draft list include a pale blue heart and a grey heart, the “stop” (or “high five”) hand gesture, a flute, maracas and a hair pick. New emojis including a shaking head, the symbol ...

Born from the words for “pictures” and “written characters,” the emoji is a natural extension of the visual symbolism that suffuses Japanese culture and public life, notes Keith Houston in his book, ...

There are language purists out there who insist on the Queen’s English, eschewing text speak and correcting bad grammar whenever they see it. But it can’t be denied that the way we talk has shifted ...