The emojis are branching out. The icons are going beyond text messages and social media posts to Hollywood, with a movie all their own. Deco’s human emoji, Chris Van Vliet, has the story. Emojis have ...

Critics went in on The Emoji Movie, which Mashable described as "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" -- and we're hardly the only ones getting cute with symbols here. It was enough to warrant the use of poop emoji in ...

Within our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical “Emojiland.” Several key players tell us ...

A total of 994 characters were released in that first batch, including the notorious “pile of poo,” which — along with the X-rated peach and eggplant pictograms — has stirred the most unease and ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

It turns out you can have too many emoji. Where the small pictographs were once useful in portraying and simplifying the expression of common emotions/things/places, it now seems humanity is set on ...

The Unicode Consortium, the organization charged with selecting and overseeing emojis, is having a shit fit. According to a new report from BuzzFeed, the group has erupted into a civil war over ...

It's only been a month since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released version 10 of the colorful little communication icons, including more diverse images along with zombies, a T-rex and (yes) a sandwich ...

Hershey’s is speaking emoji. For the first time in the company’s 125-year history, its milk chocolate bars are getting a new look. The limited-edition bars have a digital-forward design featuring ...