These days, emoji are nearly as common as text. Some 6 billion of the minute images are sent around the world every day. But the classic smiley-face emoji has actually been around for a long time. Now ...

Nearly four centuries ago, a lawyer was reviewing municipal account documents in his tiny village nestled next to the Strážov Mountains of Slovakia. The documents, he believed, were good. So he signed ...

You’ve come a long way, smiley face emoji. You’re now officially art, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, just like the Picassos and the Jackson Pollocks. Your crew has its ...

Emojitracker.com, which updates the number of emoji being used on Twitter in real-time, projected on a gallery wall. Back in the ‘90s, when a young employee at the Japanese mobile company NTT Docomo ...

Why type when you can emoji? The modern-day hieroglyphs, now a ubiquitous form of digital communication, have largely supplanted the written word -- at least for simple, short-burst communiques: ...