Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

The Unicode Consortium updates its emoji file with hundreds of new characters, ranging from a John Travolta-like disco dancer to a joystick. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Sometimes words aren't enough and the only true way to express how you feel is through emoji. Now, instead of searching through rows of almost 900 symbols, an app will automatically 'translate' ...

Alex Hern sets the record straight for once and for all Emoji and emoticons are not the same thing and the continued confusion of the two will not stand. In the New York Times, under the headline “At ...

Apple is thinking pink with its latest round of emojis. Thirty-one new emojis — including the highly-requested pink heart — are coming to smartphones next year. Emoji 15.0 is set to be approved this ...

Snapchat is up there as one of the most feature-packed social media platforms — there's everything from goofy filters that let you swap faces with anyone (or anything), to realistic ones that let you ...

You may have heard that 250 more emojis, the little smiley face icons and other symbols you can send in text messages, are coming to a cellphone near you. The story of the emoji starts in Japan in the ...

Emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK - and many find it easier to communicate using its smiley faces and icons than text, says one linguistics expert. Professor Vyv Evans, from Bangor ...