Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Memoji remains an excellent display of just how accurate and performant the Face ID ... we've seen Apple experimenting with the little smiley emoticons and symbols known as emoji.

Whether it's a friendly smiley face or a cheeky aubergine, emoji now form a staple part of ... The other characters include an apple core, an orca (killer whale), a trombone, a landslide, and ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.