Ford’s prototype cycling jacket displays emoji on the back to foster harmony among road users. A device on the handlebars lets you select different emoji.

Unicode, the non-profit behind Emoji creations, drafted “four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes” possibly for its 15.1 update.

Are you literal or ironic with emojis? Celebrate World Emoji Day by exploring the results of CNN’s texting quiz — and then taking it yourself.

We’re still awaiting that wacky pack of emoji characters previewed in May. And we probably won’t actually see the shovel and exhausted face appear next to the fingerprint and purple splat ...

July 17 is World Emoji Day. CNN's recent texting quiz asked users how they use emojis, among other questions.