Unicode's is adding new emoji options to its standard this fall, including what looks like a Bigfoot emoji.

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

The new emoji will be part of the Unicode 17.0 release, which is scheduled for this fall. They won’t be available when iOS 26 arrives in September, however. Since Apple adopts its own style for ...

In iOS 18.2 and later, Apple's Genmoji feature lets you create personalized emoji that aim to perfectly match what you want to express, going far beyond the limitations of standard Unicode emoji ...

Unicode approves new emoji including zombies, vampires, naked sauna people and swearing faces NEED to show you are swearing, warn of a zombie apocalypse or that you want to be naked in a sauna and ...

I think it's time to relegate JSON serialization to what it really is: useful for inspecting data during debugging. However, the more readable we make the JSON, the harder it gets to parse. We already ...

Apple has come out with a new Emoji Game daily puzzle, which is exclusively available with the Apple News+ subscription.

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