Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions. There's a dark current in Houston's bayous this year, with 16 bodies recovered, five of them in the same week last month. City leaders are downplaying ...

Faced with an onslaught of increasingly sophisticated deepfake scams, some companies are turning to low-tech tactics to foil artificial intelligence-powered audio and video impostors. The tactics, ...

What is more perfect for a scary Halloween than an ultimate scary Halloween costume? This Smiley Face Halloween Makeup Tutorial will delight any fan and will be terrifying to others. Russian lawmaker ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, ...

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...

Linguists and language pedants generally say no. In “Face With Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji,” Keith Houston, weighing the evidence, concurs. He asserts, however, that there is “a richness ...

While phone calls are still around, texting has become the norm. Where words fall short, emojis step in with more than 10 billion times a day. Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress Grizzly ...

The meaning of most emojis is pretty clear just by looking at them. For example, when the pandemic hit in 2020, usage of the emoji showing a mask over a face 😷 went through the roof. But that’s not ...

Emojis have long been the language of casual conversation — a smiley face to soften a message, a thumbs-up to signal approval, a wink to add playful nuance. But today, these tiny icons are showing up ...

Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...