Oxford dictionaries' word of the year for 2015 isn't a word at all, it's an emoji. Oxford announced on Monday that its official word of the year for 2015 was the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji. This ...

Today there are north of 3,500 accepted emoji characters. They appear in politics, movies, texts, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. Keith Houston follows ...

Learn how to create the popular 😂 Tears of Joy emoji using needle felting. This step-by-step wool art tutorial is fun, ...

Hey, another thing about emoji! (groan). But, in digging deeper into an ImproveNet piece, we found something pretty interesting: a methodology that made sense (yay!). They combed through 200 million ...

The Crying Laughing emoji (😂) is there for those moments when you're laughing hard. If you feel the tears prickling the corner of your eyes, this is the way to express it. It's one of the original ...

Historian Houston (Empire of the Sum) chronicles the rise of the emoji in this fun romp through the evolution of digital language. He begins the account in Japan, where teenagers’ widespread use of ...