The slew of new emoji rolling out to smartphones this year will include the transgender flag and symbol, finally ceding to LGBTQ advocates who have long asked for additional representation. More than ...

Paul D. Hunt pushed the Unicode Consortium away from stereotypical gender iconography. Last year the Unicode Consortium—the group responsible for the selection and design of emoji—released a new ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents and a gender-neutral Santa are part of of the new 2020 emoji update from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sets ...

Polar bears, pick-up trucks, bubble tea, and a gender-neutral Santa will soon be a quick tap away, thanks to Emoji 13.0. On Wednesday, January 29, Unicode released a list of 62 emoji releasing in 2020 ...

The new set of 2020 Emojis is now unlocked! Get ready to express more gender-inclusive messages to your social media accounts, share the love for other races, and even be more emotional with the usage ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- 62 new emoji -- 117 if you count all the gender and skin tone variations -- are coming to your smartphone this year, ensuring you'll never have to use pesky words in your text ...