Emojis

Women interpret emojis differently to men, a new study suggests.Researchers selected 24 emojis—taken from Apple, Windows, Android, and WeChat platforms—and labeled them according to six emotional states: happy, disgusted, fearful, sad, surprised, and angry.They found women were able to more accurately interpret happy, fearful, sad, and angry emoji labels compared to men.Meanwhile, the interpretation of surprised and disgusted emojis showed no gender differences and were understood equally by both men and women.A new…

In March, Apple enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the launch of iOS 17.4, which reportedly could promise a vibrant…

Emojis are used throughout online communications, but little is known about the way each individual perceives them. Researchers investigated how emoji comprehension differs by culture (UK vs. China) and gender (male vs. female) for a sample of six emoji (happy, sad, angry, surprised, fearful and disgusted). They found significant differences in how emojis were classified by the 523 participants, highlighting the importance of context in emoji use. N.B.:…

Apple is now seeding iOS 17.4 beta 3 to developers as the company aims to release this upcoming operating system update in March. There are several changes coming with iOS 17.4, including exclusive functions for European customers, by opening up iOS to third-party payments, app stores, and more. Here’s everything you need to know about iOS 17.4 beta 3.One of the main changes for all users is the addition of over 100 new emojis. The new emojis include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral…

With watchOS 10.4 expected to launch in early March, Apple continues its testing cycle with beta 2. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one has some interesting new features that users should be looking forward to trying.First of them is the addition of over 100 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers and gender variants represent the majority of new…

Alongside the drastic changes coming to the EU with iOS 17.4, Apple is also adding new emojis for iPhone users. Once iOS 17.4 is available to everyone in March, you’ll be able to use new emojis.As revealed last year, Emojipedia announced 108 new emojis, including skin tone modifiers and gender variants. The new emojis include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes.Interestingly, some of the new additions differ from what Emojipedia…

Find The Sentiment You’re Looking For 🔍🤔😀🚀Semantic search over emojis for “halloween” using a custom emoji search engine.If you’ve ever used Google Docs, or Slack, you may have noticed that when you type a “:” immediately followed by another character, a list of emojis pops up:Since I discovered this, I’ve been making major use out of the feature. I add emojis into way more of my messages, blog posts, and other written works than I ever imagined I would. I actually got so accustomed to this means of adding emojis that I…

One in five messages posted on the social media platform X contain an emoji. The cartoonish representations of smiley faces, human beings, and objects have become a key part of how we communicate in the 21st century. They help us understand each other—and the world, which is why conservation biologists have called for the number of emoji to be rapidly expanded to better represent the biodiversity on our planet.At present, the list of emoji users can deploy in conversations is severely limited and skewed toward certain…

Taylor Swift reignited her 14-year feud with Kanye West in her Time Person of the Year interview and she pulled his ex-wife Kim Kardashian back into the fray. Now, the pop superstar’s fans are launching a familiar social media campaign against its originator. The “Anti-Hero” singer called the venomous rivalry, which came to a head in 2016, a “fully manufactured frame job” and inadvertently rallied Swifties to exact revenge — or a digital version of it — on Kardashian’s Instagram account over the last few days.Back in…

Threads is now rolling out a new Tags feature globally on the platform. The Meta-owned platform was introduced earlier this year to rival Elon Musk's X. Meta announced a few weeks back that it was testing the use of tags on Threads posts. This feature, also known as hashtags, has been popular across social media sites for years and it is available on several platforms including Threads-rival X, formerly Twitter. However, Thread's version of hashtags comes with some limitations and alterations.Instagram Head Adam Mosseri…