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Facebook doesn't support custom fonts, but users can stylise posts with Unicode text converters like YayText or LingoJam for bold, cursive or bubble-style lettering.

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.

Apple has released its 18.4 software update, which includes 8 new emojis. Here they are, ranked from best to worst.

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.