A couple of months ago, NPR reporter Lulu Miller tweeted a question. She knew a 5-year-old who was texting exclusively in emoji, and wondered if were there any studies about kids, too young to read, ...

Jason is a corporate communicator by weekday, freelance writer by weekend. His Android days go back to the atrocity that was the HTC ThunderBolt, but his love for Android began in earnest with the ...

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, ...

The Unicode Consortium picture....one of those is not like the others... Why is the Gov't of Oman a seat at the table? Click to expand... They seem to have a more complicated membership structure than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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