Emoji are already butting their heads with traditional words, but could they take over completely? Linguist Neil Cohn casts his expert eye over the pictures taking the world by storm. To many, emoji ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: It's often difficult to date the beginning of things. Hello, Antony Funnell here, ...

Emoji might be one of the fastest-growing communication methods of the digital age, but a lot of people probably think the whole thing is silly. Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji ...

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee reviews new submissions. Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who want ...

Remember when everyone was worried that text-speak was killing the English language? At one point high school examiners in some places even began allowing students to write essays with the truncated ...

Hieroglyphics are making an unlikely 21st century comeback, and it's all thanks to Millennials' insatiable appetite for texting. Young people might hate history class, but they can't get enough of the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Drug dealers are trolling the internet and dark web across multiple platforms as they hunt for easy prey amid a historic overdose epidemic on Staten Island and throughout the ...

Niki Selken: Yes, and it was particularly in 2010 when Apple and Google decided, hey, we want to partner with the Unicode foundation, who are the ones that decide what languages get encoded into the ...