A new gender-neutral pronoun, 'X也' (ta), is set to revolutionize Chinese language use. Approved by Unicode in September 2025, ...

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

Stepping into the shoes of a real-life Neil Diamond tribute performer meant that Hugh Jackman donned a lot of sequins — and ...

Emojis were first developed in Japan in the late 80s and 90s for use on mobile devices, and they quickly spread worldwide as ...

Cron persistence is a common Linux malware technique. Learn how it works, how to detect it, and how to remove malicious cron ...

A rare Unicode character, the right-to-left override (RTLO), can make executable files appear as harmless Word or image ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the mid-December. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not be ...

Determining a carbon footprint is easier said than done, and it’s not clear how much weight we should put on it. One way to gain a quantifiable understanding of the impacts of our actions, for good ...

What's up, besties? It's World Emoji Day, which means it's time to look at some new emoji (or is that emojis?). In a post on its blog today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit behind the ...