There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, ...

Apple thinks it's high time to make even more inclusive emoji. In a March proposal, the tech company requested that Unicode Consortium — the organization responsible for our emoji — create characters ...

If you thoughtemojis were an overnight phenomenon soon to disappear, you deserve to get a snarling face in your inbox. Those pesky visuals are here to stay, judging by the Emoji Trend Report, a study ...

If you've ever hesitated to add a smiley face or a thumbs-up to an email, a new survey from Adobe may put you at ease. The software company, which conducts regular surveys on emoji use, found that the ...

A 10-year-old boy in England is taking on Apple over its "nerd" emoji. Teddy Cottlel, of Oxfordshire, wants Apple to change the emoji, which depicts a glasses-wearing grinning face with two front ...

A person with a white cane, an individual sitting in a motorized wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, someone signing the word "deaf." These are among the 13 variants of emoji to represent people with ...

‘Having accessibility and inclusion of all types be a priority in tech is a huge issue.’ ‘Having accessibility and inclusion of all types be a priority in tech is a huge issue.’ When Carrie Wade first ...

In honor of World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing), the Chinese tech company Baidu released a report spotlighting the most popular little characters used globally on the Facemoji Keyboard app over the ...

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A dozen icons depicting the experiences of people with disabilities are coming to smartphones and other devices later this year. The Unicode Consortium — the organization that standardizes the emoji ...