Even when Ruth Kaiser was a kid, she saw smiling faces everywhere she looked. In the pattern of the carpet at the movie theater. On a door hinge in a public restroom. "I've noticed smiley faces in ...

Are smiley faces, shrugs and thumb's-ups too tame, too un-spicy to adequately express your emotions? Be frustrated no more: A new cellphone app is now letting users express themselves in texts and ...

William Shakespeare and Mark Twain may never have needed emoticons, but textual smiley faces have grinned, smirked, and grimaced their way into today's e-mail and instant-message conversations. The ...

Space Smiley FaceA galaxy cluster appears to flash a smile at Earth in a newly released image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The eyes in this cosmic smiley face are actually very bright ...

Mobile apps that allow users to create their own emojis or share the stylized images of NBA star Stephen Curry and other celebrities are paying off for a small upstate New York company. Moji Maker— ...