Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Anyone with access to the iOS 18.4 public beta will have first dibs on using the new emoji that accompanies the latest version for Apple's iPhone software. Everyone else, though, will probably ...

Early risers will be able to catch a celestial “smiley face” in the eastern predawn ... moon to form a slightly off-kilter cosmic emoji in the hours before sunrise. The triple conjunction ...