My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

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Connor, a 22-year-old vintage clothing seller, thought he’d cancelled a date—until she turned up at the front door of his ...

“This league is crazy. … Nothing is given to you ... Mahomes reacted, posting a smiley face with sunglasses emoji on X. Then he texted Worthy. “Let’s go!” Mahomes wrote.

Some names signal cultural identity, while others are designed to be as bland as possible so as to avoid drawing the wrong ...

A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

Reality TV star Johnny 'Bananas' Devenanzio is under fire for a post that included six banana emojis and a gorilla emoji.

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard.

This is especially true for the emoji we use to express love … or is it passion? Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke ...

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...

If you’re heading to a queer event in Sydney, chances are it’s hosted by Heaps Gay, and chances are its founder, Kat Dopper, ...