Now the consortium has given developers the first Emoji 11 beta, which contains 130 draft emojis, including a female superhero, a lobster and a party face. There's no trace of the sad poo and that ...

Once upon a time, it was deemed safe to post a photo of your child on Instagram or Facebook and just insert a cute emoji ...

We revealed in December that many Samsung handsets automatically convert text messages to pricier picture messages. It can happen when someone inserts a pictographic emoji 🙂, but sometimes plain text ...

The new Unicode 9.0 emoji suite also features new career emojis, in male and female iterations, including astronaut, judge, and rock star. Bacon and a shrug emoji also made the roster.

Fans of Japanese cartoons and comics would point out that the bubble is used to signify a sleeping character, even though the emoji is often used as a sad face, or a sick face.