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

Having a voice assistant read your texts aloud for you while you drive is really convenient, not to mention safer than trying to read them yourself. But if your texts were sent to you by a child or ...

Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the sentence. But how does that work? Do we interpret an emoji primarily as an image or as a word? To find out, a research team ...

Officials in charge of school tests say the use of emojis in sample Year 9 questions seem to be more of a distraction to older people than the students. Emojis could be here to stay on school tests.

Emoji work great when you read them, but Apple’s CarPlay is all about keeping your eyes on the road. Instead, CarPlay recruits Siri to describe the emoji for you—often with hilarious results. So ...

The longer that we live with emoji, the more disappointingly familiar they threaten to become. Slate has taken a firm and consistent line on the growing realism of these once abstract images: Last ...

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The study was carried out in a collaboration between Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler, assistant professor for Digital Forensic Linguistics at the German Studies Institute at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), ...

If a word in a sentence is replaced by an image, we still understand its meaning. But the detour via the image can take time. Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the ...