Emojis have become essential to crafting the perfect text, so it is no surprise that the library only keeps growing. Along those lines, Unicode has announced the official Unicode 11.0 list for 2018, ...

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

Interracial couples. A guide dog for blind people. A person using a wheelchair. These were among the new emojis announced this week by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that provides standards for ...

When Apple announced a host of more than 70 emoji late last year as part of the iOS 12.1 update, the company also revealed that it was working with the Unicode Consortium to develop more emoji ...

The world needs more emojis. Ever since emojis became a cultural phenomenon, tech companies have been working together to add new smileys, animals and objects. And the Unicode consortium just ...

Microsoft has updated the SwiftKey Keyboard Android app to introduce some new features. After the update, the SwiftKey app bears version number 8.10.34.6 and comes with new emojis and a new keyboard ...

Update: Added the official release of Unicode 10.0. The Unicode Consortium announced the official release of Unicode 10.0 which means you’re that much closer to having 56 more ways to express yourself ...

Scroll through all the emojis on your phone, and you’ll find a gas pump, an oil drum, and … zero sign of clean energy. Some people in the United Kingdom decided to do something about it. Possible, a ...

Can you decipher these ancient hieroglyphics? In the age of hyper-evolving tech, the innovative emojis of today make those of yesteryear — read: 20 to 30 years ago — seem digitally prehistoric.

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

In response to the more than 52,000 people who signed an online petition posted by the Tinder dating app last year, Unicode, the global organization responsible for emoji standards, released the ...