On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Windows emojis add a fun pictorial element to any text. If you’re not in the mood to write stuff, why not say it with a bunch of adorable funny faces? Here’s how to access the emoji keyboard. That’s a ...

Curious how the Caesar Cipher works? This Python tutorial breaks it down in a simple, beginner-friendly way. Learn how to encode and decode messages using one of the oldest and most famous encryption ...

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 ...

For the longest time, Mac folder personalization was primarily limited to adding a name, tag, and custom icon. While you could tweak the look further through unofficial means, the default methods were ...

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its ...

Emojis may feel like a universal language, but a new survey has found they are causing confusion and even offense in the workplace. A study by Lokalise of more than 1,000 employees in the United ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nirit Cohen covers the Future of Work, bridging trends with solutions. Emojis have become part of the way we work. Not as a ...

The new emoji will be part of the Unicode 17.0 release, which is scheduled for this fall. They won’t be available when iOS 26 arrives in September, however. Since Apple adopts its own style for new ...

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

But then something changed. A younger generation came in and everything we thought we knew about emojis shifted. Teens and young adults are using emojis in weird ways — and reacting to our emoji use ...