Scrolling through Instagram recently, I saw a picture that an old friend from high school had posted of his dad with the caption announcing his father’s death. It was terrible news, and I immediately ...

NEW YORK -- Bad news for people who frequently use the "laugh cry" emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Twitter is testing emoji reactions for tweets that go beyond a ...

The Stanford Internet Observatory has released an extensive analysis on Gettr, the largely unmoderated right-wing Twitter clone founded by longtime Trump spokesperson Jason Miller. The details—which ...

Optical illusions have emerged as a favorite pastime of people, becoming viral on social media. These puzzles are not only fun, but they also test how sharp our eyes are and how quickly the mind works ...

Bad news for people who frequently use the 😂 emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over the hallmarks of ...

I regret to inform you that the Face With Tears of Joy emoji is over. It is not cool anymore. It is actually hated. This is quite a fall; in 2015, it was the word of the year, according to the Oxford ...

The polling firm YouGov recently did a survey to find out how people interpreted emoji. Not surprisingly, there were significant differences of opinion on many. What looked like “shocked” to one ...

Yesterday, Oxford Dictionaries announced that its Word of the Year of 2015 is 😂, otherwise designated as “Face with Tears of Joy” by the Unicode Consortium. Who did this, fam? In the announcement, ...