Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Murder suspect Mtula Payton, 29, listens to a witness in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 23, 2024, during a preliminary ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

Jury selection will begin Monday in the trial before Rankin County Circuit Court Judge Dewey Arthur. Carly Gregg was 14 years ...

A vet intern in Taiwan couldn't resist taking a selfie with a particularly smiley kitty he was tasked with caring for ... She ...

As I looked through the railing of a local school boasting an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating, I saw staff letting all the ...

I recently connected with my high school boyfriend online and we have been messaging each other. I’ll call him “Doug.” Pretty quickly our conversations moved to texting and some days we ...

We’ve noticed waving cats in restaurants and stores for years, but even the happy bobbing of their arm didn’t really catch our attention. Maybe [Josh] had seen a couple more than we have when ...

A man waving a Hamas flag outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago declared that "every Palestinian supports Hamas" and praised the terror group for ...

When The Advocate decided to host a limerick competition in memory of longtime columnist Smiley Anders — who died in May after more than 50 years of writing for the paper — we knew readers ...

WAILUKU–A sign-waving event throwing a spotlight on suicide and prevention, organized by Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services, drew about 25 youth, staff and community members Tuesday to the ...

Just hours before the shooting, Smiley Martin filmed himself and several others in 2500 block of Traction Avenue in Old North Sacramento waving handguns and talking. Notably, Eaton testified ...