USA Today’s Friday front page was more animated than usual — as the Gannett publication paired Emoji characters with front page headlines. A headline about the stabbing of a U.S. Air Force officer, ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

The polling firm YouGov recently did a survey to find out how people interpreted emoji. Not surprisingly, there were significant differences of opinion on many. What looked like “shocked” to one ...