Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us blog ...

Research psychologists have known for years that certain facial expressions of emotion are easily recognized by people around the world. Sad faces and happy faces, for instance, are recognized with a ...

Facebook’s “like” button isn’t going away, but it’s about to get some company. Facebook has been testing alternatives to “like” in about a half-dozen countries, including Ireland, Spain and Japan. On ...

This morning, I wrote about how members of online hate forum Stormfront have responded to news that links their ideology with the Sikh temple shooter. Commenter Andrew Gaboury was struck by the medium ...

Dr. Martens and Lazy Oaf are back with its fourth collaborative collection, this time reimagining some of the famous footwear brand’s newly popular staples. The news comes after the brands first few ...

A funeral billboard is catching eyes in Albuquerque and many are sounding off about it.The billboard was put up by French Funerals and Cremations. It’s white and the only thing on it is a sad face ...

In an apparent quest to make the patent system look even more ridiculous, a firm on Thursday sued Samsung and Research in Motion for allegedly infringing a patent titled "emoticon input method and ...