The shifting popularity of various emoji highlights what preoccupies us during the Covid-19 pandemic: less focus on traveling to exotic destinations than visiting the local grocery store, a ...

The Unicode Consortium did not respond to a request for comment on whether it could add Covid-19-specific emoji to a future lineup. But Burge of Emojipedia said it’d be an unlikely move, echoing ...

The two most popular emoji were 😷 (known as "Face with Medical Mask") and 🦠 ... COVID-19 has now infected over 115,000 people worldwide. 4,200 people have been killed.

People use emoji to talk about everything, and now COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, is no exception. Emojipedia studied thousands of tweets to learn how people are using emoji to talk about the ...

Thanks coronavirus: the Unicode Consortium revealed it's pushing its release of Unicode 14.0 -- and the emoji it would include -- from 2021 to 2022.

In digital communication, where visual information often conveys key ideas in memorable, pithy and fun ways, emoji is king. And as our world has changed due to COVID-19, new ways of deploying ...

had a sharp increase because of a promotion run by Dunkin’, the donut and coffee shop. Many recent transactions included with messages of support for medical workers. This image shows four ...

The list of yearly events delayed by coronavirus has a new entry: the release of new emoji. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit which oversees emoji and develops new emoji for release, said the c… ...

If the idea goes forward, we would likely see at least some new emoji on mobiles in 2021. COVID-19 has so far killed more than 81,500 and infected more than 1.3 million people.

TWITTER has created a brand new handwashing emoji to help fight germs during the coronavirus pandemic. The emoji is backed by the World Health Organisation – and shows how social media is ...

Censored coronavirus news shows up again as emoji, Morse code and ancient Chinese. A censored interview with a whistleblower doctor in Wuhan prompts massive pushback on WeChat.