Back in 1999, when the mobile internet first flickered to life on Japan’s i-mode, email was confined to a snug 250 characters. Email! So when designer Shigetaka Kurita centered pixels on his potter’s ...

Emoji have managed to become quite popular over the years, and are an integral part of messaging for many people. You can access emoji from pretty much every keyboard out there, even though some of ...

If you're annoyed by the "Pregnant Man" emoji, you're getting irritated by the technical equivalent of stacking three Lego bricks on top of each other. Here's how Unicode U+1FAC3 came about. Before ...

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