Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...

The Unicode Consortium updates its emoji file with hundreds of new characters, ranging from a John Travolta-like disco dancer to a joystick. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...

We live in a world of text speak where emoji meanings are as much part of our vernacular as word meanings. Every thought, feeling or emotion you could imagine can probably be conveyed through emojis ...

THOUSANDS of emojis are available to use for savvy texters from coloured love hearts, food and even a whole range of animals. One of the most popular is the range of monkey emojis – here is a helpful ...

Emojis are an inescapable part of modern life. The explosion in their use led one British university to name emoji the world’s fastest growing new language in 2015. Since then the yellow faces, along ...

The new emoji - a hand performing a pinching sign - will be one of 270 new emojis, along with images representing people with disabilities such as hearing aids, wheelchairs, guide dogs and a ...