The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer ...

Microsoft is changing its toy gun emoji to a revolver — the exact opposite of Apple By Matt Weinberger 2016-08-05T16:37:23Z ...

The smiley face, heart, praying hands and other “emoji” have become the way millions of Internet users playfully punctuate their texts, posts and messages, but for one middle schooler the ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer ...

Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people. The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji.

Before you send that gun and screaming face emoji combo, you might want to think twice. Emoji death threats could be admissible in court. Fletcher Babb, a freelance journalist, received a string ...

Below: Apple’s water gun. Below: Twitter’s water gun. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when Apple in 2016 rolled out its own ...

Apple has made a powerful gesture in the face of worldwide gun crime by banishing guns from its emoji roster. Apple's gun emoji A green water pistol is the new gun of choice for iOS users, now ...

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.

In a bid to promote inclusivity and challenge stereotypes, 10-year-old Teddy from Peppard, Oxfordshire, has initiated a campaign urging Apple to redesign its “nerd face” emoji.