The advent of Unicode character encoding in 1991 largely solved the problem of competing character sets, but the solution opened a new Pandora's box. Using Unicode to provide enough binary code points ...

In the arenas of ancient Rome, the thumbs-up was a matter of life and death. So scholars have extrapolated from the elusive history of ancient gestures. The fates of defeated gladiators were ...

Texting has taken over the world, especially as millennials and Gen Z ditch phone calls in favor of sending short text messages all day. Whether you prefer sending SMS or using an instant messaging ...