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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is at long last releasing in just a few days for the Nintendo Switch, and Twitter has created a new custom emoji to celebrate. Everyone's favorite raccoon landlord, Tom ...

If you’ve ever been writing a text on your phone and thought, “You know what would be great right now? A beaver emoji,” you’re apparently not alone. The Oregon state animal, aka the American Beaver, ...

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A ...

Newly proposed guidelines under consideration by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that maintains Unicode as the international standard for symbols across software platforms, could soon ...