Apple announced on June 9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26. The tech giant said that update will bring a transparent ...

In iOS 17, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app to make communicating with other Apple users more creative and fun. One such feature is the ability to use emoji as stickers. This ...

The first text message, a "Merry Christmas" greeting, was sent by British software programmer Neil Papworth in 1992. A year ...

Using Apple’s Genmoji, you can create custom emoji when you can’t find the exact right one to express yourself nonverbally. The Apple Intelligence feature generates emoji on the fly based on your ...

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Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7, including a face with bags under its eyes, splatter and a harp. The Unicode Consortium ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Emojis are very common, and I use them every time I have text conversations. I recently shifted from Windows to a Chromebook; this is my first Chromebook experience. One of the first challenges I ...

If you use emojis at work, you might want to rethink how they’re coming across. You might use the clapping emoji to say “nicely done” or the thumbs-up emoji to show approval, but younger professionals ...

This post explains how to insert emojis in Microsoft Excel. If you’re looking to insert emojis in Excel, you’ll probably have a good reason for it. Emojis or similar symbols are sparingly used in ...

In-person communication involves much more than words. We decipher nuanced meaning from other important factors, such as tone, facial expressions, and body language. Some experts claim that these ...

If you use lots of emoji when messaging your friends, you may be more emotionally intelligent—that is, better able to understand your emotions and those of others. That is the conclusion of an ...