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 ...

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.