Emojis are also built-in to Windows 8.1 and supported on Windows 7, which means you can technically use them with some copy/paste action. (Looking to get emojis on your Mac computer?

Emojis are all over our smartphones. These little icons have become an integral part of how we use mobile technology. From text messages to Facebook posts, they spice up our everyday digital ...

For the most part, emojis act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before them. I think of them as next generation exclamation points — a sort of ...

“It’s so easy to be angry online,” says Jennifer Daniel, the creative director of emojis at Google. “Emojis give you permission to be gentler.” In a study involving nearly four million ...