Emojis at centre of alleged "sexpest" investigation
Emojis took centre stage in the early parts of a judicial conduct trial investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge this past week, Sunday Times reports.
Lawyers for Mbenenge's...
Canadian court rules thumbs-up emoji counts as signing a contract
A Saskatchewan court has ruled against a grain buyer who responded to a contract sent to him with a thumbs-up emoji, forcing him to honour the agreement, New York Times reports.
The dispute between farmer Kent Mickelborough and...
Microsoft makes 3D emojis open source
Microsoft is making more than 1,500 of its 3D emojis publicly available for users to edit, turn into stickers, or create unique sets of emojis.
The Verge reports that most of Microsoft's 1,538 emoji library will be available on GitHub and Figma.
WhatsApp getting new voice and message reaction features
WhatsApp will soon allow users to share a voice note as their status update and has started rolling out more emojis to use in message reactions.
According to WABetaInfo, the popular chat app is developing a new voice status feature and...
New Twitter emojis could cause controversy
Twitter is working on a new feature that will allow users to express themselves using Facebook-like emojis.
The social media platform recently sent out surveys to see how people will respond to the possibility of a wider range of emoji-like reactions...