Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character) ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a message, and when you throw emoji in the mix things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy to understand ...

A new Google Contacts update (v4.48.27.720364420) allows users to assign emojis or monograms as contact photos. Users can now ...

Butler said it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to use this method to hide malware or malicious code in an emoji.

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Your favourite emoji might not mean what you think it does. A forensic linguist explains how these seemingly innocent symbols could have legal and social implications.

and the Google Messages app, which usually comes preinstalled on Android phones, has eliminated the need for carrier support entirely. Adding a like or other emoji reaction is just one feature of ...

A recent court case in Saskatchewan has shown that the use of an emoji in a text message, understood as the seller’s ...