Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...

Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easy to understand, but when someone sends emoji you might feel ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has addressed design issues in the company’s formerly faulty food and drink emojis: a cheeseburger and a mug of beer. Last year, complaints about the tech giant’s burger emoji ...