Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update ...

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

Emojipedia founder and Chief Emoji Officer Jeremy Burge has announced that the Unicode Consortium has approved 69 emoji as part of the Emoji 5.0 update for 2017. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard, offering a preview of new text characters and emoji that will likely arrive on Apple platforms like iOS later this year ...

While the new emojis of Unicode 10 have yet to launch, Unicode President Mark Davis this week revealed a collection of new emojis have been added as "draft candidates" for potential release in Unicode ...

The newest list of emojis is out and will be arriving on our devices sometime in the near future. The Unicode Consortium, which sets the bar for text and symbols across the web, released its 2021’s ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium–which decides upon and standardizes emoji–added more skin tones to its catalog. Today, Unicode took another step towards making emoji more diverse: emoji are finally ...

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