To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

Emojis can add tone and personality to text-based messages, helping to clarify the intended meaning behind words.

The same goes for the handshake emoji. “ At this stage skin tone support for the handshake emoji is drafted for Emoji 14.0 meaning it could be on phones in 2021-2022,” Burge explains.

She submitted women’s clothing emoji to Unicode in 2017 and 2019 to offer alternatives to sexualized stereotypes, such as high-heel emoji that were once the only option to depict women’s shoes.

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection.

Available now to select usersIt's hard to remember a time when skin tone emoji weren't a thing, with WhatsApp first introducing them all the way back in 2015. However, even today there are some ...

Choosing a skin tone emoji can open a complex conversation about race and identity for some. Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino.

The new emoji skin tone options cover every existing set, including straight, LBGT, and single families with any combination of one or two children.

Slack will soon groups emoji reactions of different skin tones into one big group reaction. This small change is a huge boon for inclusivity. Slack says it’s rolling out to everyone now.

Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.

On April 30, 2021, several tech news outlets reported that "a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is coming in 2022." This assertion is true. The news was announced by Google in a blog post published ...