Not even emoji are safe from hackers - smiley faces can be hijacked to hide data, ... he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character).

Gen Z recently dubbed the thumbs-up emoji as “rude” and “hostile.” Getty Images/iStockphoto “For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere. As laid-off designer Audrey Davis observed, she never thought the saluting face would make her “sob.” ...

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which also ...

Not even emoji are safe from hackers - smiley faces can be hijacked to hide data, ... a person could embed a secret message inside an emoji without altering its visible appearance.

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes.. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which ...