For the uninitiated, emoji are special characters, like a winking face, dancing girl or, yes, pile of poop. They’re approved and distributed by the Unicode Consortium, which creates guidelines needed ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium, the organization which oversees emoji development, adds new emoji ranging from hand gestures to objects. Now a bot on Twitter is trying to create fresh emoji by ...

A Twitter account called @EmojiMashupBot has been programmed to do the Lord’s work—taking two emojis and blending them together to birth a single beautiful new emoji. It may not sound like much at ...

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