CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The Unicode Consortium has published a draft list of emoji that could come to smartphones and other devices in the future. The list shared by Emojipedia outlines 19 emoji candidates under ...

The latest WhatsApp beta build introduces sticker suggestions, eliminating the extra step of opening the sticker panel.

Emoji reactions have been hiding at the bottom of your personal Gmail messages for over two years, and now they’re coming to ...

Get ready for new emoji in late 2026. Explore the fresh additions like the pickle emoji and what it brings to messaging.

The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...

Not everyone is a fan of the generic iOS message reactions, called Tapbacks. The six original Tapbacks were a heart, thumbs ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Review - If you have always wanted to shoot a giant emoji, Emoji Battlefield - Origins could (just about) be for you.