While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret sinister meanings.

(Insert skull emoji here.) You could skip the monitor’s buttons and use an HDMI switcher, but I found out the hard way that such a solution has its quirks, too. Or I could just buy an HDMI ...

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, has called out the tech mogul's political views during an 80-minute rant ...

Teenagers are being hired by gangs to carry out crimes in Sweden. Now, security services say, some are unwittingly acting on ...

"lol nah," another added. "And the Lakers traded him for Mike Muscala," another said with a skull emoji. Zubac was a 2016 second round pick out of Bosnia and Herzegovina who has had games of ...

There, groups use seemingly innocuous symbols to order up attacks: A skull emoji signals murder, while a dollar emoji represents payment, according to Swedish prosecutors and academics CNN spoke with.

The court didn’t laugh along, finding her guilty of making threats. And then there’s the infamous skull emoji. In South Africa, a politician sent a skull emoji to a rival, claiming it was a ...

Emojis have become a completely different language for younger people - so how can parents make sense of it all?

After watching Adolescence, I asked him to explain the skulls and smiley faces which him and other young people use ...