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

Despite a 19-page proposal (and three revisions!), the white wine emoji still won't see the light of day yet. If you’ve ever scrolled through your phone looking for a white wine emoji, you’re not ...

But how will we indicate to our social-media acquaintances that we’re drinking pinot grigio instead of pinot noir?!? After petitioning for more than a year, wine enthusiasts have learned that the ...

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix. The meeting minutes noted that the UTC ...

The OK emoji – and photos of the hand signal – have been added to a list of hate symbols as a result of white supremacists falling for a prank… The hand gesture of index finger and thumb forming a ...

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 ...

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection. KHALID: ..