Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.