Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

KHALID: ...And I want to reply with a simple thumbs up emoji. (SOUNDBITE OF IMESSAGE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: But it's not that simple because there's not just one ...

You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji. You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji. Jay ...

Emoji are colorful icons baked into the on-screen keyboard of most smartphones that allow users to express a number of words and ideas through pictographs. These including birthday cakes, rainbows, ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Google is now letting you easily set your own default skin tone and gender for supported emoji in Gboard on Android. Today, selecting a different skin tone – by long-pressing – will result in Gboard ...

One of the buttons in the toolbar of Gmail’s compose window opens an emoji picker that Google is now modernizing with a “more complete emoji selection.” The picker today has just five categories with ...

Emoji will become more racially diverse in 2015. An update slated to be released next year will allow users to choose between five different skin tones for all their humanoid emoji characters. “People ...

Microsoft Teams will soon support setting the skin tone of emojis within the app. Your skin tone of choice will then extend across emojis and reactions and sync across clients. Skin tone customization ...

So a lot of times I find myself texting a friend... (SOUNDBITE OF IPHONE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...Or messaging a co-worker... (SOUNDBITE OF SLACK NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...And I want to ...