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The laugh-cry emoji may be considered deeply uncool, but it's still the most-used emoji in the world. That's according to new data from the Unicode Consortium, the organization responsible for ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

A driver who was stopped for texting behind the wheel claimed he was only sending "a laughing emoji" to his girlfriend - prompting police to respond with emojis of their own. The man was caught by ...