All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest smiley face emoji. It was unearthed when scientists were investigating a site in Turkey which dated back to 2,000 BC ...

Users of Outlook on Office 365, Microsoft's subscription-based cloud productivity suite, will find that the ":)" emoticon will actually get autocorrrected into a standard emoji.

If you love smiley faces you'll weep tears of joy about the news we're about to get more emojis! Dr Karl reveals who holds the ultimate emoji power.

The simple ASCII smiley face was introduced by Scott Fahlman in 1982. As part of her passion for neo-pictographic symbols, Selken and her colleagues are creating an Emoji dictionary to help others ...