A picture may tell a thousand words, but the secret meaning behind an emoji can be enough to strike fear into any parent’s heart. We all use emojis and acronyms to bring some light hearted fun to our ...

When I imagined life with teenagers, I seriously underestimated how much time I’d spend just trying to decode what they were saying (cracked? Sigma? Crash out?) and their cryptic emoji use (what does ...

Netflix’s four-part British miniseries ‘Adolescence’ is one of the most powerful pieces of TV you’re likely to see this year. It’s raw and honest in its portrayal of social issues such as male rage, ...

Text emojis apparently aren’t just for teenagers anymore, with news outlets reporting how top American officials used them in high-level, Signal message chats last week that included details about U.S ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – You see the text messages and hear ...

The most popular emojis are the most obvious: smiley faces, sad faces and that one that looks a little bit like chocolate ice cream. But social media experts say parents need to look past the ...

Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could caption Instagrams automatically with emoji. It was a chance to mess around with computer vision — complex ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — It was Oxford Dictionary’s word of ...

DENVER -- It was Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. Now, emoji is quickly becoming the universal language of the internet. It's estimated that 6 billion emojis are sent every day. It’s a form of ...

TikTok might be best known for its dance routines and challenges, but it's also the home of nearly 50 "secret" emoticons that are exclusive to the app and include graphics that look significantly ...