Our editors' top picks to read today. From the red heart to the laugh-cry face, here’s a glossary of canceled emoji. Columnist The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...

A simple ‘thumbs-up’ emoji can change the course of a conversation. You send a message, wait for a response, and there it is. One tiny thumb. It can signal happiness, agreement, understanding, or ...

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For a while now, we've had what seemed like the perfect digital descriptor for just about any situation. It's called the "shruggie," and its knowing, sideways smirk and raised arms denote a ...

It should come as no surprise that Minnesota's favorite emoji is the winking face. After all, the winking face emoji is the king of ambiguity, and Minnesota is known to be the land of ...

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...