Lokalise surveyed over a thousand workers across the U.S., U.K., Germany and Mexico, and the one emoji that everybody agreed is verboten in a workplace setting probably won’t surprise you: the ...

You may think you're fluent in emoji, but this list may prove otherwise. Many of us are out here butchering the digital language without even realizing it. Emojis are ostensibly used to make ...

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its ...

Yesterday, in an announcement post, the Unicode Consortium unveiled the latest version of its standard—with 7 brand-new emojis along with 156 new variants for existing emojis. The new batch of emojis ...

Emojis may feel like a universal language, but a new survey has found they are causing confusion and even offense in the workplace. A study by Lokalise of more than 1,000 employees in the United ...

The Unicode Consortium has confirmed its next slate of emojis, coming in the next year to eager thumbs near you. Yes, there is indeed a nonprofit organization that creates standardized language across ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nirit Cohen covers the Future of Work, bridging trends with solutions. Emojis have become part of the way we work. Not as a ...

Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

The new emoji will be part of the Unicode 17.0 release, which is scheduled for this fall. They won’t be available when iOS 26 arrives in September, however. Since Apple adopts its own style for new ...

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, ...

But then something changed. A younger generation came in and everything we thought we knew about emojis shifted. Teens and young adults are using emojis in weird ways — and reacting to our emoji use ...