Shigetaka Kurita, the inventor of emoji, draws his original smiley face emoji (courtesy Emma Griffiths PR) If Picture Character, a new documentary from directors Martha Shane and Ian Cheney, had ...

Texting a simple smiley face is not enough for some people. After all, there’s the smiley with tears or the smiley with sunglasses — and don’t forget the smiley with heart eyes — to choose from. Emoji ...

Emoji are many things to many people. Depending who you ask, they’re fun, flirty, confusing, a whole new language, or the demise of language itself. Google’s Emoji Scavenger Hunt adds one more to the ...

Apple has shared its latest white paper via its machine learning journal. Today’s entry is “Learning with Privacy at Scale” and covers specific algorithms Apple ...

Microsoft has unveiled a fun new app that utilizes its machine learning technology to judge facial expressions imitating emoji. The Emoji8 tool is a sample UWP application, according to Microsoft, ...

Tyler Schnoebelen has discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, a firm that interprets linguistic data. So recently ...

Dango is an emoji suggestion chatbot — wait, where are you going? Stay with me, this is actually pretty cool. Okay, so Dango is one of those virtual assistants that lives in your chat apps, and this ...

Human linguistics began with pictograms. At some point, a particularly enterprising Cro-Magnon decided to dip his finger into the ashes of a smoldering fire — ouch! — and wipe it against the cave wall ...

Your life might make more sense if you do, given their penetration into every area of human endeavor. People are using emojis to offer recaps of TV shows, movies and even albums; brands have created ...

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