When's the right time to send your friend a face with a long nose, or a severed arm taking a selfie? How about a clown face? The answers range from sometimes to never. CNET freelancer Danny Gallagher ...

A fun thing about the wide world of emoji is that while they are carefully selected — often to great debate — by a governing body known as the Unicode Consortium. Unicode decides which emoji make the ...

This is what you need to know about the 72 new emojis that are coming in June 2016 including a bacon emoji, selfie emoji, whiskey emoji and more. Here’s a look at the 2016 emojis coming to iPhone, ...

There’s an emoji for nearly anything. Dreaming of the pad thai leftovers in your fridge? The drooling emoji has you covered. Talking about Beyoncé? Use the bee emoji. Planning to storm into Area 51?

It’s seems the Unicode Consortium (the people in charge of creating emoji—and doing other software stuff) has a knack for surprises. Though the organization assured the world that no more emoji would ...