Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

A sign of their grounded and stable nature, the Bull is reliable, weathers any storm, and has loyalty that runs deeper than a ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

But who came up with the Smiley? According to the digital keyboard firm Swiftkey, the most used emoji of 2016 in the UK was the one of a face crying with laughter, second was a face blowing a kiss ...