CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Google’s Emoji Kitchen has recently expanded, allowing users on just about any device – iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS, and other devices or computers – access weird and unnatural emoji combinations ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. For whatever reason, Google is now rolling ...

In iOS 17, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app to make communicating with other Apple users more creative and fun. One such feature is the ability to use emoji as stickers. This ...

You can get emoji on your MacBook's Touch Bar by tapping the smiley face symbol — but only if the program you're using supports them.

Apple’s latest iOS 18.1 software update introduced a series of Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and notification summaries. However, some features were missing from the lineup, ...

Apple has introduced significant updates to its Messages app in iOS 18, with a particular focus on enhancing the popular Tapback feature. Tapbacks, the quick reactions users can add to messages by ...

We all spend a lot of time looking at our phones, which means a lot of time looking at the wallpaper backdrop on the lock screen and the home screens—so it makes sense to have something eye-catching ...

If you save a lot of favorite places in Google Maps, you should be thrilled to hear that the app now supports emoji. That is, you can pick any emoji and set it as the symbol for a certain place on the ...

Gmail started rolling out the ability to react to emails with a single emoji, as opposed to sending an email in reply. However, that emoji icon can get in the way if you don’t plan on using it. While ...