Official names tell one story. Real usage tells another. Here are the emojis most often misread, plus what people actually mean today.

Explore the meanings behind emojis with this comprehensive guide. From happy faces to animals and objects, this list provides detailed explanations for a wide range of emoji symbols. Emojis are visual ...

I haven't entirely decided if I'm exaggerating, but I do know one thing: We're in the midst of a revolution, and that revolution is all about communicating with each other without having to say a ...

Emojis are truly a language all their own, and Dictionary.com is recognizing this by adding emojis to their site—becoming the first major reference to do so, as Time reports. As we all know, emojis ...

Instagram is solving some of the internet’s greatest mysteries — like just what it is people mean when they use that salsa dancer emoji. One of the company’s software engineers, Thomas Dimson, has ...

Technology changes how we communicate, in more ways than one. From texting to social media, the evolution of smartphones, laptops, and other personal communication devices has dramatically altered the ...

The same emoji also won the award for the Most 2025 Emoji.

Whether you like his takes or not, Mike Francesa has been know to take on a lot of subjects during his radio show over the years. However, on Tuesday he took on a topic that we never thought we’d hear ...

Emojis were first introduced in Japan back in the late 90s, after a group of Japanese people working for a telecoms company needed a way to distinguish their pager service from those of the ...

It turns out there's more than meets the eye when it comes to the fairly mundane-looking paper emoji, as it actually contains ...

Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could automatically caption Instagrams with emoji. It was a chance to mess around with computer vision — complex ...

Instagram is solving some of the internet's greatest mysteries — like just what it is people mean when they use that salsa dancer emoji. One of the company's software engineers, Thomas Dimson, has ...