It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character.

As reported last year, the Unicode Consortium had teased eight new emoji that would become available on platforms such as iOS and Android. Now with the official release of iOS 18.4 to the public ...

Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism. Some of the emoji -- like the phoenix, brown mushroom, lime and a broken chain -- are new. Others are variations ...