The Unicode consortium lays out the framework for emojis and decides what should be depicted, but companies such as Apple and Google are free to create their own designs. Royal Opera House London ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

Gboard's Emoji Kitchen redesign adds a top-row suggestion bar for easy emoji combination results. A new 'browse' screen displays all possible emoji combinations for simpler sticker creation.

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

To find out what some of our most-used emoticons might say about us, Young Post spoke to psychologist Leah Selakovic, who shared all about how emojis changed the way we communicate. Selakovic ...