Nothing is immune to the impacts of COVID-19. Not even your emoji keyboard. Apple recently released a first look at the emojis in the next version of Apple iOS, which is always oddly exciting tech ...

EVERYONE loves using emojis in their texts to try and describe how they’re really feeling. However, some are a bit more difficult to know how to use them. So, what is the upside-down smiley? Please ...

World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday of October each year. This year, it falls on October 6. Smiling and laughing improves one's overall health and boosts the immune system. It increases ...

Dead eyes, half-smile. Inhale deeply. Let it out. It’s all going to be OK. “🙂.” My editor messaged me after I pitched him some dumb, silly, exceedingly me blog. Gentle code for “let’s pass on this ...

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed the fraudulence of this emoji’s yellow visage ...

AWARENESS. YOU CAN’T HELP BUT SMILE WHEN YOU SEE TONY THE EMO.JI HE WAS MAKING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES HAPPY AT MONROEVILLE MALL TODAY. HE GAVE OUT SMIL FEYACE PENS , STICKERS, AND PUT STAMPS ON KIDS HANDS ...

Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In a move that, I’m sure, ...

If that function sounds familiar, it should. In pre-emoji times, abbreviations like “jk” or “/s” served roughly the same purpose. In the pre-internet era, you could use phrases like “I’m just kidding” ...

A 30-page Report by the 12-member Emoji Study Group (ESG) of ICANN’s Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (CCNSO) has reiterated a number of problematic issues that were highlighted in a ...

What does the upside-down smiley face mean? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used ...