Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

Emojis are basically the internet's way of speaking a language everyone understands. No matter where you're from, they just click. They bring feelings to life in a way plain text can't quite manage.

A report last year revealed that WhatsApp was working on its own animated emoji, something that its competitor Telegram already has. After introducing the first animated emoji in beta for Android ...