By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character) ...

The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind ... inspired by kaomojis - so really the evolution was not down to smiley emoticons, but kaomojis! Other countries utilise accents ...

Often when we talk about icons expressing emotions, we tend to use the words emoji and emoticon interchangeably. However, Merriam-Webster has revealed that the two words aren’t the same! ‘Emoticon’ ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts ... been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the ...

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should ... including Smileys, People, Objects, Activity ...

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

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 according to a new study, there’s one thing that we should all be eliminating from our work emails – and that’s the smiley face emoji ... effect of smileys and similar emoticons on ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji. Paul Butler explained ... preserve variation selectors, they do not naturally attempt to decode ...