SAN FRANCISCO — Millennials, rejoice: A winking-face emoji is worth a slew of ironic words. The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter, ...

And just like that, N. Gray goes from being an ordinary Jamaican to a #SuperMillionaire. Congratulations from Supreme Ventures. pic.twitter.com/OUrOkEvanc — Supreme ...

Our brains respond to irony from emojis in the same way as words. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois examined the brain activity of English-speaking college students as they read ...

There was no disrespect intended when a winking-face emoji headlined a 75-year-old Spanish woman's newspaper obituary notice. In fact, her family did it on her request. Grandma apparently loved that ...

This lottery winner couldn’t stop smiling mainly because she was wearing a winking smiley emoji mask. But she probably still had a grin on her face under the disguise considering she’d just won ...

New developments in Geoffrey Rush’s defamation case against The Daily Telegraph and journalist Jonathon Moran have seen the actor defend sending a colleague a “winking emoji” text message. Rush ...

My editor Deb loves to ruin things. One time she used her Ph.D. in Italian to ruin an entire emoji. The emoji in question is a common Italian hand gesture that, roughly translated, means “what the ...

A grandmother from Barcelona, Spain, might have the ‘coolest’ obituary spread in a local newspaper yet. The loved ones of 75-year-old Carmen Bustamante Barango fulfilled her dying wish by posting a ...

He also posted “F— the 83 104 79 98 73 PCTKKKK” next to a similar emoji series, according to the criminal complaint, which said the threats “caused New York City police to fear for their safety.” But ...

Sure, you use the Messages app to send along SMS and iMessages all day long. You know how to use Emoji’s, too, with a tap on the international keyboard button on your iPhone. I bet you even use ...