The world of emoji has grown immensely in the last decade or so, moving effortlessly from a quirky add-on to text-based communications to a method of expressing the full range of human emotions. More ...

Friday July 17th is World Emoji Day. Yes, that is really a thing. Guffaws aside, we do have some interesting emoji-related news to share. Google’s Gboard is getting a new quick-access emoji bar. Right ...

The update, called Emoji Kitchen, comes to most Android phones today. There are 3,000 emoji on our phones today, including variants in gender and skin tone. And yet it can still be hard to find just ...

Google is working on improvements to Chrome OS’s virtual keyboard, including a new dark theme, Unicode 14 emoji, and the ability to type while using Linux apps. For over a year now, Google has been ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

The app is now rated age 12+, while Google's own Gboard app is rated for all ages, says a report. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a ...

The public’s love affair with emoji has — not surprisingly — been noticed by the marketing community, where there is accelerating interest in the form from commercial brands seeking fresh ways to ...

If you’ve ever felt like there just weren’t enough emoji options to express how you’re feeling, a new addition to Google’s Gboard keyboard, launching today, aims to help. Gboard for Android is ...

There's no shortage of quirky emoji – money with wings, moons with faces, piles of poop with smiling mouths. What emoji do lack, according to a team at Google, is a fair representation of professional ...