Google's emoji artwork has come a long way. Just one year ago [http://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.3/], this is how Android displayed emoji: Having black and white alien faces portraying a range of emotions such as happiness [http://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-open-mouth-and-smiling-eyes/] , sadness [http://emojipedia.org/disappointed-face/] or

The Unicode Consortium has today announced the emoji candidates [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-8/] for inclusion in Unicode 8.0 [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/], due in mid-2015. Popularly requested [https://www.change.org/p/shigetaka-kurita-and-president-of-the-united-states-i-humbly-request-that-you-add-a-hotdog-symbol-to-the-emoji-set-and-furthermore-ketchup-shall-not-be-used-in-the-making-of-this-hot-dog-emoji] emoji accepted as candidates include the Hot Dog Emoji [http://e

The ongoing rollout of Android 5.0 Lollipop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Lollipop] in the past week [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/the-first-phone-with-android-5-0-lollipop-is-the-2014-moto-x/] has brought 209 additional emoji flags [http://emojipedia.org/flags/] with it. Emojipedia displaying new emoji flags on Android 5.0 Lollipop Brazil [http:

The Unicode Consortium has released a technical report [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-1.html] which details a method for representing a range of skin tones in emoji. Guidelines have previously suggested that emoji people [http://emojipedia.org/people/] be "as neutral as possible regarding race, ethnicity, and