A 52-year-old woman from The Hague, Netherlands, visited an outpatient psychiatric clinic and told doctors about hallucinations she had been experiencing since childhood. When she looked at people’s ...

Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

Yesterday, in an announcement post, the Unicode Consortium unveiled the latest version of its standard—with 7 brand-new emojis along with 156 new variants for existing emojis. The new batch of emojis ...