In a video installation by James Joyce, a yellow circle rotates as two black ovals and a curved line tumble at the bottom, thwarted by gravity. Watching the video, Perseverance in the Face of ...

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

We're all familiar with the smiley emoticon, and its power to add levity, flirtation, and occasionally passive-aggression to our texts, chats, and e-mails. But according to researchers, our brains ...

Emoticons such as smiley and sad faces are changing the way our brain works, Australian researchers have claimed. They say the use of the punctuation faces trigger parts of the brain usually reserved ...

As part of an experiment to scale up the amount of content NZZ in English delivers, the following story was machine translated with minimal editing. It was September 1982, at Carnegie Mellon ...

Since the dawn of humanity, mankind has communicated via symbols. Indeed, it was a turning point for civilisation when the Sumerians carved a GOT BARLEY? icon on a rock. (The Sumerians also invented ...

I just found the emoticons on my cell phone — the tiny little yellow smiley faces you can add to a text message. There’s a traditional smile, a smile with teeth showing, smile with tears, smile with ...

Love them or loathe them, it seems no text or email is complete without a smiley face created from open brackets and colons and this month marks the 30th anniversary of their introduction to modern ...

In a video installation by James Joyce, a yellow circle rotates as two black ovals and a curved line tumble at the bottom, thwarted by gravity. Watching the video, Perseverance in the Face of ...