Back in 1999, when the mobile internet first flickered to life on Japan’s i-mode, email was confined to a snug 250 characters. Email! So when designer Shigetaka Kurita centered pixels on his potter’s ...

Emoji have managed to become quite popular over the years, and are an integral part of messaging for many people. You can access emoji from pretty much every keyboard out there, even though some of ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

If you're annoyed by the "Pregnant Man" emoji, you're getting irritated by the technical equivalent of stacking three Lego bricks on top of each other. Here's how Unicode U+1FAC3 came about. Before ...

Lauren Gawne is a co-creator of Lingthusiasm. This research was funded in part by the Lingthusiasm Patreon. We’re much more likely to be hanging out on social media than at the watercooler these days.

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...