World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji .

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently ...

Tech companies are experimenting with 3D and animated emoji -- see Apple's "Animoji" and Telegram's interactive emoji effects -- to bring more emotion and movement into messages.