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Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

The laugh-cry emoji may be considered deeply uncool, but it's still the most-used emoji in the world. That's according to new data from the Unicode Consortium, the organization responsible for ...

They don't work in every app, you need to download ... the most used emoji of 2016 in the UK was the one of a face crying with laughter, second was a face blowing a kiss, with a red heart third ...