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current media articles discussing emoji.
Below are some samples of news articles related to emoji (up through February, 2017).
| Date |
Source |
Title |
| 2017-02-09 |
Techworm |
Scientists discover the world’s oldest emoji written 328 years ago |
| 2017-01-21 |
The Los Angeles Times |
Emojis are everywhere — including in their own Hollywood movie |
| 2017-01-12 |
Business Insider |
Why iPhones are much better for Emojis than Android |
| 2016-12-24 |
Engadget |
In 2016, emoji kept it 💯 |
| 2016-12-19 |
The Verge |
How Emoji goes from pitch to product |
| 2016-12-16 |
CNET |
If you are an Emoji, this could be your dreamjob |
| 2016-12-14 |
CBS News |
Apple adds hundreds of new emojis |
| 2016-12-11 |
The Telegraph |
Flags of England, Wales and Scotland given thumbs up by emoji chiefs |
| 2016-12-09 |
Digiday |
The year in emojis, in 5 charts |
| 2016-11-15 |
TechCrunch |
Apple brings back the peach butt emoji |
| 2016-11-11 |
Wired |
Here are the new emoji to expect in 2017 – from T-rex to exploding heads, breastfeeding and beards |
| 2016-11-10 |
DailyMail |
Unicode 10 Emojis hijab, zombies etc are set to become emojis |
| 2016-11-09 |
University Herald |
GoDaddy Rolls Out Emoji Based Websites With ASCII Format, Emoji Domains 100% Compatible With All Browsers [VIDEO] |
| 2016-11-06 |
Time |
What It's Like Inside the World's First Emoji Convention 😜 |
| 2016-10-26 |
The New York Times |
Look Who's Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji |
| 2016-10-22 |
Medium |
Gender Legibility in Emoji |
| 2016-09-30 |
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland |
Finland emojis win big at Digital Communications Awards in Berlin |
| 2016-09-14 |
NY Times |
Muslim Teenager Proposes Emoji of Woman Wearing a Head Scarf |
| 2016-09-06 |
The Washington Post |
You can finally vote on new Emojis |
| 2016-08-29 |
xkcd |
Unicode |
| 2016-07-20 |
Quartz |
There’s now a formal proposal for a rainbow flag emoji |
| 2016-07-17 |
Chicago Tribune |
World Emoji Day |
| 2016-07-15 |
Fortune |
Google and Emoji Authorities Put Gender Equality on the Fast Track |
| 2016-06-13 |
MacWorld |
Ios10 Brings Emoji Suggestions |
| 2016-06-02 |
Apple Insider |
Face palm, pregnant woman among 72 new emojis released wit iOS 9 |
| 2016-06-01 |
Fox News |
OMG! The bible's newest translation is in emoji |
| 2016-05-18 |
CNET |
Forget words, you can now google with Emojs |
| 2016-04-19 |
Wired |
The Emoji is the birth of a new type of language |
| 2016-03-30 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |
The Colbert Emoji Is Good For Almost Every Occasion |
| 2016-03-25 |
Time |
The Inside Story of Why the World Is Being Blessed With a 'Colbert Emoji' |
| 2016-02-12 |
Mercury News |
Q&A: Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium, on the rise of emojis |
| 2016-02-03 |
Time |
Meet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis |
| 2015-12-16 |
The Verge |
The group that makes emoji wants your help saving the world's smaller languages |
| 2015-12-08 |
Rhizome |
Two days with the shadowy emoji overlords |
| 2015-11-20 |
Associations Now |
THE ORGANIZATION BEHIND EMOJIS’ GROWTH |
| 2015-11-17 |
NBC News |
It’ll Make You Laugh! It’ll Make You Cry! It’s the Oxford Word of the Year! |
| 2015-11-17 |
PC Mag |
Google Has Dropped the Ball on Emoji |
| 2015-11-15 |
The Guardian |
Crying with laughter: how we learned how to speak emoji |
| 2015-11-13 |
Huff Post Tech |
Why You Have So Many Junk Emojis You’ll Never Use |
| 2015-11-12 |
edelman.com |
Emoji Power |
| 2015-11-11 |
Wired |
The Emoji Diversity Problem Goes Way Beyond Race |
| 2015-11-09 |
Tech Times |
Petition was started to have Unicode Consortium release a beard Emoji |
| 2015-11-05 |
Mac World |
Apple’s emoji are the best, but finding them is the worst |
| 2015-10-25 |
NPR |
Who Decides Which Emojis Get The Thumbs Up? |
| 2015-10-24 |
Mashable |
The complete guide to every single new emoji in iOS 9.1 |
| 2015-10-23 |
The Verge |
Emoji, emoji everywhere, and not a way to search them |
| 2015-10-22 |
TechCrunch |
Tech Companies Reveal Mystery Eye Emoji Is Part Of Anti-Bullying Campaign |
| 2015-10-20 |
GQ |
The Guy Who Helps Decide What Emoji to Approve Just Hinted at What’s Next |
| 2015-10-20 |
The New York Times |
How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones |
| 2015-10-13 |
Business 2 Community |
The Emoji Infographic: Stats to Back Up Your Obsession |
| 2015-10-13 |
Daily Mail |
Wrestlers, a gorilla and salad among the new emoji coming to phones next year - but the hunting rifle is stirring controversy |
| 2015-10-05 |
Adweek |
Infographic: Emojis Are Becoming a Preferred Communication Tool Across Demographics |
| 2015-10-04 |
BBC News |
Finland: Ministry launches 'tongue-in-cheek' emojis |
| 2015-10-01 |
The Week |
The upside of emoji |
| 2015-09-27 |
The New York Times |
Brands Woo Millennials With a Wink, an Emoji or Whatever It Takes |
| 2015-09-18 |
Medium |
Unicode: A story of corruption, connection, and smiling poo |
| 2015-09-18 |
Newsweek Europe |
OPINION Are Emojis Becoming the New Universal ‘Language’? |
| 2015-09-15 |
The Verge |
Facebook can now vote on emoji standards |
| 2015-09-14 |
Daily Mail |
The cheese emoji is on its way! Developers get a sneak peek at the new symbols coming to iOS 9.1 including a taco, robot and a unicorn |
| 2015-09-12 |
Gizmodo |
How the Middle Finger Emoji Finally Got the Thumbs Up |
| 2015-09-11 |
iol scitech |
Emoji in need of affirmative action |
| 2015-09-10 |
emojipedia |
iOS 9.1 includes new emojis |
| 2015-09-10 |
Huffington Post |
Here Are Some Of The New Emojis Coming Soon To Your iPhone |
| 2015-09-02 |
Inquisitor |
Jimmy Kimmel Emoji-fies Miley Cyrus’ Feud With Nicki Minaj |
| 2015-08-22 |
Techie News |
As we await new emojis, Unicode publishes core specification for Version 8.0 |
| 2015-08-14 |
Daily Mail |
Translators from 11 regions misunderstand ‘universal’ symbols |
| 2015-08-12 |
Business Insider |
Why world-renowned Harvard linguist Steven Pinker loves emoji and you should too |
| 2015-08-06 |
Mirror Online |
Striking photographs of real-life emojis show digital images in new light |
| 2015-08-03 |
Business Wire |
Arika Okrent, Noted Linguist and Author, to Present Keynote at 39th Internationalization and Unicode Conference |
| 2015-07-27 |
The Guardian |
I’m sitting next to a weirdo on the bus |
| 2015-07-23 |
You tube |
Jimmy Kimmel and Brie Larson Dramatically Read the Emoji Movie Script |
| 2015-07-21 |
The Economist |
What emoji are |
| 2015-07-17 |
The New York Times |
Letting Our Emojis Get in the Way |
| 2015-07-17 |
seventeen |
38 New emoji are coming and they’re everything you hoped for: Happy #WorldEmojiDay! |
| 2015-07-17 |
Yahoo Tech |
8 reasons you should take emoji seriously |
| 2015-07-17 |
youtube |
The History of Emoji |
| 2015-07-16 |
Wales online |
Why using emojis is a good thing and can help you build successful relationships |
| 2015-07-14 |
PR Week |
From McDonald’s to Ikea, 7 of the best emoji marketing campaigns |
| 2015-07-06 |
Bustle |
What Do All The Monster Emoji Mean? All Your Questions Answered About The Best Emoji You Aren’t Using |
| 2015-07-06 |
The Guardian |
Emojis have gone mainstream and its time for brands to get involved |
| 2015-07-01 |
winbeta.org |
Bing might be adding emoji to its homepage |
| 2015-06-30 |
Buzz Feed News |
The World’s Biggest Keyboard App Is About To Help Decide The Future Of Emoji |
| 2015-06-29 |
NY Daily News |
Nine emojis that should have been created already |
| 2015-06-25 |
Bustle |
Where’s The Rainbow Pride Flag Emoji? Why The Iconic Gay Rights Symbol Should Be On Our Phones |
| 2015-06-24 |
Wired |
Emoji—Trendy Slang or a Whole New Language? |
| 2015-06-23 |
Softpedia |
Unicode 8.0 Coming to Fedora 23 Linux This Fall |
| 2015-06-23 |
TNW News |
The psychology of emojis |
| 2015-06-23 |
VB News |
Bill Nye explains climate change in our favorite language: emoji |
| 2015-06-23 |
SB Nation |
Mike Francesa does a remarkably good job explaining emoji to a radio caller |
| 2015-06-21 |
SB Nation |
Roger Federer is actively campaigning for a popcorn emoji |
| 2015-06-20 |
Daily Mail |
Why the world loves emojis: The rise of the cutest form of communication |
| 2015-06-17 |
Mashable |
Hold onto your burrito: 37 new emoji are coming to your phone this year |
| 2015-06-17 |
TechCrunch |
Line Takes Aims At The U.S. Market With An Emoji Keyboard App For iOS |
| 2015-06-15 |
Gizmodo |
Emoji Passwords Are Coming: Harder To Hack And Easier To Remember |
| 2015-06-14 |
Wired |
Where to Find That Missing Emoji You Needed |
| 2015-06-12 |
The Washington Post |
Sleepy face, sad face or shocked face: The emoji identity crisis. |
| 2015-06-04 |
The Telegraph |
Can anyone understand emoji? |
| 2015-06-03 |
Entrepreneur.com |
The 100 Most Popular Emoji Hashtags on Instagram (Infographic) |
| 2015-06-02 |
stern |
Das steckt hinter den mysteriösen Emojis |
| 2015-05-30 |
Internet Watch |
黄色い絵文字の意図は「ありえない肌の色」 Unicodeコンソーシアム会長、マーク・デイビス博士に聞く |
| 2015-05-30 |
stern |
Das bedeuten diese Emojis wirklich |
| 2015-05-25 |
El País |
La nariz de Pinocho y el ‘selfie’ quieren ser emoticonos |
| 2015-05-22 |
the conversation |
No, the rise of the emoji doesn’t spell the end of language |
| 2015-05-19 |
WSJ |
How I Learned to Love Writing With Emojis |
| 2015-05-15 |
Bustle |
How To Use Emoji In Google Drive, Because Somewhat Surprisingly, It’s Actually Possible |
| 2015-05-14 |
TNW News |
The next emoji update will clarify their meanings: Are you using them right? |
| 2015-05-12 |
Mashable |
Finally, adorable emoji for endangered animals can help save them |
| 2015-05-12 |
The Washington Post |
Getting all emoji about language |
| 2015-05-08 |
Instagram |
Emojineering Part 2: Implementing Hashtag Emoji |
| 2015-05-07 |
Huffington Post |
Jimmy Kimmel Finds A Way To Reveal The New Middle Finger Emoji |
| 2015-05-06 |
The New Yorker |
How Emoji Got to the White House |
| 2015-05-04 |
Fusion |
Emoji just solved our STEM problem |
| 2015-05-04 |
Quartz |
Microsoft is the only tech company daring enough to support the middle finger emoji |
| 2015-05-04 |
TNW News |
Emoji, the new language of the internet, is improving the way we communicate online |
| 2015-05-04 |
CNET |
Thumbs-up: Bill Nye explains ‘Star Wars’ holograms using emoji |
| 2015-05-04 |
nachrichten.de |
Bei Windows 10: Microsoft erlaubt das Mittelfinger-Emoji und überholt Apple |
| 2015-05-04 |
NPR |
As Emoji Spread Beyond Texts, Many Remain [Confounded Face] [Interrobang] |
| 2015-05-04 |
WinBeta |
Windows 10 emojis will include more skin tones, middle fingers and a Vulcan greeting |
| 2015-05-01 |
Instagram Engineering Blog |
Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends |
| 2015-05-01 |
UPROXX |
Jimmy Kimmel Points Out The Absurdity Of Instagram’s Eggplant Emoji Hashtag Ban |
| 2015-04-30 |
Search Engine Land |
Expedia Adds Emoji To Its Title Tags To Increase Click Through Rates In Google |
| 2015-04-28 |
NY Magazine |
Obama Thanks Japan for Its Most Important Export: Emoji |
| 2015-04-28 |
Quartz |
Emoji hashtags are helping same-sex marriage organizers rally support |
| 2015-04-28 |
CNET |
15 cool emojis coming to a phone near you |
| 2015-04-27 |
D4News |
branded emojis ‘emoticons’ are the future of messaging marketing? |
| 2015-04-27 |
TechCrunch |
Instagram Gets Emoji Hashtags And 3 New Filters, Future Filters To Arrive Faster |
| 2015-04-26 |
Huffington Post |
15 Crucial Emojis That Are Still Missing |
| 2015-04-23 |
NBC News |
Emoji Use Around the World |
| 2015-04-22 |
Huffington Post |
These Are Each Country’s Favorite Emojis |
| 2015-04-20 |
Inside Intercom |
Emoji and stickers are just the beginning |
| 2015-04-13 |
La Nacîon |
Los 5 emojis que lideran la carrera para llegar a tu celular |
| 2015-04-13 |
Neue Züricher Zeitung |
Vom Siegeszug der Emoticons: Sie lachen, sie küssen, und sie weinen |
| 2015-04-10 |
CNET |
Unlock the secret Spock emoji in iOS 8.3 |
| 2015-04-09 |
Asahi |
iPhoneの人型絵文字、肌は5色 人種多様性に配慮 |
| 2015-04-04 |
Westdeutscher Rundfunk |
Emojis als Sprache der Zukunft? |
| 2015-04-03 |
New York Times |
Should Grown Men Use Emoji? |
| 2015-03-27 |
stern |
Diese Emojis benutzen Sie ganz sicher falsch |
| 2015-03-13 |
El Pais |
¿De verdad puede haber un emoji de paella? |
| 2015-03-12 |
El Diario |
Un torrelaveguense tras la iniciativa de ‘Paella emoji’ |
| 2015-03-09 |
VentureBeat |
The emoji is the future of texting on the Apple Watch |
| 2015-03-07 |
The New York Times |
America Needs Its Own Emojis |
| 2015-03-05 |
Tuairisc |
‘Ná déan dearmad orainne’, a deir lucht na gruaige rua le Apple |
| 2015-02-26 |
Mashable |
How the new Apple emoji got their skin tones: It’s not what you think |
| 2015-02-25 |
mediatelecom |
Apple respalda la diversidad racial y sexual con nuevos emojis multiculturales |
| 2015-02-24 |
Le Monde |
Apple ethnicise ses émoticônes |
| 2015-02-24 |
Huffington Post |
Gay Families Are Coming To The Emoji Keyboard |
| 2015-02-24 |
Der Spiegel |
Smileys für alle |
| 2015-02-24 |
stern |
Apple entwickelt politisch korrekte Emojis |
| 2015-02-24 |
The Washington Post |
Are Apple’s new ‘yellow face’ emoji racist? |
| 2015-02-23 |
The Washington Post |
The surprisingly complex reason you never see emoji URLs |
| 2015-02-21 |
Der Spiegel |
Invasion der Emojis |
| 2015-02-21 |
Mashable |
Coke is using emoji web addresses in its latest ad campaign |
| 2015-02-19 |
Bustle |
2015 Oscar Predictions In Emojis, Because Nothing Describes Your Feelings About This Awards Show Better |
| 2015-02-19 |
MediaPost |
Brands Need To Get Emoji-nal |
| 2015-02-19 |
Tech Times |
Coca-Cola Creates Emoji Web Addresses And Gives The Internet A Burst Of Cheer |
| 2015-02-06 |
CNET |
Emojis could cost you hundreds on your bill if you have an older phone |
| 2015-02-04 |
The Atlantic |
What Do Emojis Mean? |
| 2015-01-28 |
The New York Times |
At Silk Road Trial, Lawyers Fight to Include Evidence They Call Vital: Emoji |
| 2015-01-26 |
news.zol |
美国少年不当使用emoji表情遭警方逮捕 |
| 2015-01-26 |
Business Insider |
An Artist Created These Stunningly Accurate Celebrity Portraits Using Nothing But Emojis |
| 2015-01-15 |
Internet Watch |
これからの絵文字の実装指針、UTR #51“Unicode Emoji”とはなにか |
| 2015-01-05 |
The Los Angeles Times |
Taco Bell really, really wants a taco emoji |
| 2014-12-30 |
The Telegraph |
How 2014 became the year of the emoji (tiny aubergine anyone?) |
| 2014-12-30 |
Yahoo! Finance (Entrepreneur) |
For the First Time, an Emoji Has Been Named the Most Popular Word of the Year |
| 2014-12-13 |
Mashable |
Bill Nye explains evolution using emoji |
| 2014-11-24 |
Cosmopolitan |
Where Do Your Favorite Emoji Come From? |
| 2014-11-23 |
unwire.hk |
Unicode 機構選出 37 個候選 Emoji 明年中用得到 |
| 2014-11-19 |
DroidApp.nl |
37 nieuwe emoticons die we in 2015 kunnen verwachten |
| 2014-11-18 |
Mashable |
The 37 new emoji candidates that we could see next year (including tacos) |
| 2014-11-18 |
Huffington Post |
Why We Never Got Those 250 New Emoji We Were Promised |
| 2014-11-18 |
Die Welt |
Emoji – Die Entwicklung des Emotionen-Alphabets |
| 2014-11-16 |
New York Magazine |
Smile, You’re Speaking EMOJI: The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue |
| 2014-11-06 |
NPR |
Coding Diversity Into Keyboards One Emoji At A Time |
| 2014-11-06 |
Politiken |
Mobiler får multi-etniske smileyer efter protester |
| 2014-11-05 |
Bloomberg Businessweek |
Non-White Emoji Are Finally Coming |
| 2014-11-03 |
Unicode Blog |
New Unicode Emoji draft, available for review |
| 2014-10-21 |
Business Insider |
Scientists Describe Their Work In Emoji And The Results Are Hilarious |
| 2014-10-17 |
Business Insider |
The Entire US Economy Depicted In Emoji |
| 2014-09-08 |
Spiegel |
Emoji-Siegeszug: Die Weltsprache unserer Zeit |
| 2014-09-04 |
Huffington Post |
You Can Now Use Emojis To Search On Yelp, And It’s Not As Pointless As It Sounds |
| 2014-09-03 |
Unicode Blog |
IUC 38 Keynote Presenter Announced [絵文字：🏰, 🎁, and 🚀] |
| 2014-09-03 |
Mashable |
Why It’s So Hard to Design New Emoji |
| 2014-08-25 |
USA Today |
Emoji: Passing fad or new universal language? |
| 2014-07-25 |
New York Times |
The Emoji Have Won the Battle of Words |
| 2014-07-17 |
Time |
Here Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn’t Know You Were Following |
| 2014-07-01 |
Mashable |
14 People Really Mad There’s No Canadian Flag Emoji |
| 2014-06-30 |
Entertainment Weekly |
Where Do Emoji Come From? |
| 2014-06-27 |
Huffington Post |
How Emoji Get Lost In Translation |
| 2014-06-27 |
New Republic |
A Peek Inside the Non-Profit Consortium That Makes Emoji Possible |
| 2014-06-26 |
jb51 |
IOS系统手机中Emoji表情文字的前世今生和正确使用方法图文详解 |
| 2014-06-25 |
The Wall Street Journal |
There’s No Hot Dog Emoji, but New Characters Do Include a Hot Pepper |
| 2014-06-19 |
Mashable |
Who Controls Emoji Anyway? |
| 2014-06-17 |
CBC News |
250 new emojis include middle finger, Vulcan salute, no racial diversity |
| 2014-06-17 |
CommitStrip |
Unicode 7 et ses nouveaux emoji |
| 2014-06-16 |
Unicode Blog |
Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 |
| 2014-06-16 |
Yahoo |
More Than 250 New Emoji, Including a Middle Finger, Are Coming Soon |
| 2014-04-24 |
CNET Japan |
携帯各社、キャリアメールとSMSの絵文字数を共通化--5月から698文字に |
| 2014-04-11 |
stern |
Witziges und Nützliches zu “Game of Thrones” |
| 2014-04-02 |
Wired |
Game of Thrones Fans, Here’s Your Season Three Recap – In Emoji |
| 2014-04-01 |
Huffington Post |
Google Chrome Prank Translates Every Single Word Into Emoji |
| 2014-03-31 |
The Colbert Report |
Emoji Ethnicity |
| 2013-08-18 |
The New York Times |
Disruptions: Texting Your Feelings, Symbol by Symbol |
| 2013-05-08 |
Computerphile |
Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile |
| 2013-03-04 |
The Verge |
How emoji conquered the world |
| 2012-09-26 |
Unicode Blog |
Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 6.2 |
| 2012-01-31 |
Unicode Blog |
Announcing the Unicode Standard, Version 6.1 |
| 2010-10-12 |
Unicode Blog |
Unicode Version 6.0: Support for Popular Symbols in Asia |
| 2010-03-08 |
Slate |
The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man |
| 2008-11-21 |
CNET Japan |
絵文字も登場--画像で見るiPhone OS 2.2アップデート |
| 2008-10-24 |
Google |
Gmail で絵文字が使えるようになりました |
| 2008-01-28 |
Google |
モバイル Gmail が携帯絵文字に対応しました |
| 2003-10-08 |
JOEL ON SOFTWARE |
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) |
The following slides provide a brief introduction to Unicode,
and an in-depth discussion of how emoji are constructed,
and the process for encoding emoji.
“絵文字：🏰, 🎁, and 🚀 (Emoji: Past, Present, and Future)” was the
keynote at the 38th Internationalization & Unicode
Conference. The videos of the keynote were created live using
Hangouts On Air, and split into 3 pieces for uploading. The slides for the
keynote are also accessible—use the gear icon to get the
speaker notes.
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