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Microsoft has an emoji problem (MSFT)
Microsoft increasingly has an emoji problem as the company's Windows 10 operating system lacks the latest set of characters.Emoji are, essentially, a special type of digital text. The characters are...
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'The Emoji Movie' is a real thing, and it opens in cinemas in August 2017
It's the cinematic event of the decade, and now it has a release date: "The Emoji Movie" will open in cinemas on August 11, 2017.The film is the work of Sony Pictures Animation, Variety reports, and...
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Remember this chart next time you’re texting someone who has a different type...
The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that develops and maintains the computing-industry standard for how text, punctuation, and emoji look across platforms, recently updated its emoji chart.The...
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Researchers have developed a new password system that uses emoji
A group of security researchers have created a potential password replacement system that uses memorable patterns, pictures and codes instead of the traditional phrase or string of characters. The...
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There is a huge flaw in Kim Kardashian's new emoji app that lets people use...
In December 2015, Kim Kardashian released an app featuring cartoon emoji-style depictions of herself and commonly used Kardashian phrases. The app's explosive launch saw it shoot to the top of the App...
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There's a huge flaw in Kim Kardashian's emoji app that lets people use them...
In December 2015, Kim Kardashian released an app featuring cartoon emoji-style depictions of herself and commonly used Kardashian phrases. The app's explosive launch saw it shoot to the top of the App...
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Here's how DJ Khaled single-handedly used Snapchat to turn the key emoji into...
One man has taken an emoji buried in your phone's keyboard and turned it into a pop culture icon.The man is none other Khaled Mohamed Khaled, better known as the music mogul and "We the Best" hype-man...
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Here are the candidates for the next round of new emojis
Will it be the clown face? The pregnant woman? The man dancing? How about the selfie emoji? Or the cucumber? Or all of them?These are just a handful of the new emoji that you may soon come to your...
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You'll be able to use Facebook's new emoji in the next few weeks — except...
You'll finally be able to use Reactions, Facebook's expansion on the traditional "like" button, in the next few weeks, the company tells Bloomberg.Facebook first announced the new emoji emotions last...
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Facebook is about to roll out a massive change to its 'Like' button
According to reports, Facebook is on the verge of launching its new Reactions feature across the world. A revised form of the 'Like' button, Reactions lets users express emotions including...
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Here are the most popular emojis in every state
Between the months of July and October 2015, ImproveNet, an online home improvement service, analyzed nearly 2.5 million tweets. The tweets all contained at least one emoji as well as a reference to...
View Article22 emojis everyone gets wrong
Have you ever gotten a text that didn't make sense? Maybe the embedded emojis were to blame. As more emojisappear on our phones, the emotions they convey becomes more specific and nuanced. Many of...
View ArticleFacebook just made a massive change to its entire site
Facebook just rolled out a whole new way to react to posts. No longer limited to "liking" posts, now you can react with all sorts of emotions. Produced by Matt Stuart. Original Reporting by Alex...
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Love is the new like on Facebook (FB)
Hours after Facebook rolled out five new animated reactions to supplement its longstanding "Like" button, it seems there is already a people's choice: Love.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a...
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A 12-year-old girl is facing criminal charges for using emojis, and she's not...
The smiley face, heart, praying hands and other emojis have become the way millions of internet users playfully punctuate their texts, posts, and messages, but for one middle schooler the icons brought...
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You may soon be able to change the gender and hair colour of emojis
Emoji might be about to get a whole lot more customisable.The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit body that governs the wildly popular pictograms, is mulling a proposal to add the options to let users...
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Using this emoji can get you arrested
A 12-year-old girl in the US has been arrested and charged with computer harassment and threatening her school for posting the gun, bomb and knife emojis on Instagram in response to being bullied – the...
View ArticleThe latest Always #LikeAGirl ad claims emojis are sexist (PG)
The latest ad in Procter & Gamble female personal care brand Always' long-running #LikeAGirl gender equality campaign shines a light on how women and men are portrayed differently in emojis,...
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Why people love Bitmoji, the emoji app Snapchat reportedly bought for ~$100...
Last year, my roommate told me about an app called Bitmoji that lets you personalize a set of emoji to resemble yourself.Bitmoji, and the company behind it — Bitstrips — has grown in popularity, and...
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Science reveals the most confusing emoji
Emoji are often misinterpreted. We all suspected this, and now we've got scientific proof.Researchers at the University of Minnesota asked a few hundred participants to rate emoji for sentiment from -5...
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