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Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Rayouf Alhumedhi, who now lives in Vienna, proposed the idea last year to The Unicode Consortium, the ...

You can never have too many emoji, and while everyone has their favorite (red dress woman!), there are a few that we really can't believe aren't a part of the collection. Where are the cupcakes? Where ...

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Emojis are everywhere in our daily chats, helping us express emotions without saying a word. But sometimes, using the wrong emoji can send the wrong message and lead to some awkward misunderstandings.

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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, ...