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Sky watchers may see a smiley face beaming down on Earth during a rare alignment between the moon and two rising planets in ...

The latest design in Bernews’ weekly Wallpaper Wednesday series features a happy emoji enjoying a game of cricket. The design is available in two sizes; a Facebook profile cover image and also ...

Nevada may not have an emoji specifically designed to represent the Silver State, but a recent survey highlighted one that best describes the state. The survey from insurance company Ovid named ...

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The animations also seem to work when accompanied by some text. Some emoji pairs that can activate full-screen animations It is unclear when Google first started making this functionality available.

Update, March 25, 2025 (01:03 PM ET): We’ve been working to identify all the emoji pairs that manage to activate these full-screen animations, and here are the ones that we’re seeing trigger ...

Arizona may not have an emoji specifically designed to represent the Grand Canyon State, but a recent survey highlighted one that best describes the state. The survey from insurance company Ovid ...

Grok AI's Use Of Hindi Expletives Triggers Row, Musk Responds With Emoji Last week, Mr Musk's built-in chatbot on his social media platform X stunned users after it blurted cuss words to a user ...

From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many of our messages. While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have ...

A bug in the latest Google Messages beta automatically prompts emoji reactions in chats where the last received message is an image. The issue apparently appears only in the recent v20250406 beta ...

Parents are being urged to familiarise themselves with the secret emoji language teens are using after Netflix drama, Adolescence, highlighted some of the sinister meanings behind the symbols. The ...