The first text message, a "Merry Christmas" greeting, was sent by British software programmer Neil Papworth in 1992. A year ...

WhatsApp is the most popular mobile messaging platform on the planet, but it lacks some features that users have been requesting for years. This week, the WhatsApp team added a few of them at long ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...

Google has created a new emoji (variable) font with “Noto Emoji,” whose defining characteristic is a black-and-white design that tries to capture the “simplicity” of the format – and also happens to ...