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A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel luxuriously high-res and futuristic.

Windows 11 just added support for Emoji 16.0, bringing seven new emojis to the OS, though one flag remains unsupported.

Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s crime drama Adolescence has earned widespread praise for its portrayal of incel culture and male violence.

The method could be used to invisibly watermark content, experts have warned.

Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

Over 260 flags but no Aboriginal flag emoji? Luckily, there's an AI workaround...

When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message will be transmitted accurately. But Indigenous language communities don’t share this same confidence.

Here's what's coming to the next official emoji list – though you'll be waiting a while to see them appear.

Spice Girl Mel B gives backing to campaign for emojis with black or mixed-race hairstyles to be brought in