The new emojis include saluting face, biting lip, watery eyes, bird's nest, and more.
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Apple slow plays new emoji for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave
Apple won't have all of the possible new emoji available by the time iOS 12 and macOS Mojave launch this fall. There's good reason, though.
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The black dot emoji (and much more) is crashing apps on iOS 11.3
We've been looking at this issue for a few days, but apparently it has exploded in commonality as more publicity gets piled onto it.
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The black dot emoji (and much more) is crashing apps on iOS 11.3
We've been looking at this issue for a few days, but apparently it has exploded in commonality as more publicity gets piled onto it.
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157 new emoji included in final version of Unicode’s Emoji 11.0
A whole bunch of emoji are ready to go, but you can't use them yet. Instead, your phone's maker will have to code it into a software update...
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“T-Mobile is the Beats of wireless” and more in the mail | #PNWeekly 265 (LIVE at 3pm Eastern)
T-Mobile has all the cool people behind it, but one of our listeners, a Sprint employee, is throwing shade. We shine a light at his case on our show.
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The battle for emoji supremacy begins with 67 candidates for Unicode 11
The consortium behind the standardization of computer symbols is launching into another cycle of debate and coding of emoji. Well, poo.
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Google bids blob emoji goodbye, Apple greets Unicode 10 symbols
July 17 is World Emoji Day and everyone is playing around with the cute little faces, foods and whatnot. Google and Apple show their design transitions.
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Unicode 10 emoji additions stand at 56, bring total to 1,752
The Unicode Consortium is recognizing several skin tones and gendered variations in personas like fairies, vampires and magi.
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Unicode 10 emoji proposals include the sauna
As developers continue to work to implement the 72 new emoji as published in the Unicode 9.0 standard, it seems that another update is in the works.
51 new emoji have been proposed as part of the Unicode 10.0 standard. The Unicode Consortium oversees pretty much everything involving the characters in communications and the strings behind them. If these proposals are fully implemented, the total number of emoji will jump to 1,747.
Here’s the full list.
- Sled
- Flying saucer
- I Love You hand sign (ILY)
- Grinning face with star eyes
- Grinning face with crazy eyes
- Face with finger covering closed lips
- Serious face with symbols covering mouth
- Smiling face with smiling eyes and hand covering mouth
- Face with open mouth vomiting
- Shocked face with exploding head
- Breast-feeding
- Palms up together (prayer)
- Curling stone
- Orange heart
- Brain
- Bowl with spoon (breakfast, cereal, congee)
- Cup with straw (soda, juice)
- Coconut
- Broccoli
- Pie
- Pretzel
- Cut of meat
- Sandwich
- Canned food
- Giraffe face
- Zebra face
- Hedgehod
- Sauropod (Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus)
- T-Rex
- Cricket
- Face with monocle
- Adult (unspecified gender)
- Child (unspecified gender)
- Older adult (unspecified gender)
- Bearded person
- Person with headscarf (hijab)
- Person in steamy room (sauna, steam room)
- Person climbing
- Person in lotus position (yoga, meditation)
- Mage (wizard, witch, sorcerer, sorceress)
- Fairy
- Vampire
- Merperson (mermaid, merman)
- Elf
- Genie
- Zombie
- Billed cap (baseball cap)
- Scarf
- Gloves
- Coat
- Socks
This list was reduced down from a shortlist of 110 proposals from various parties around the world, reports the Wall Street Journal, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland — hence, why you see the entry for “steam room” with naked figures, though with no private parts drawn out.
The Nordic nation is the first country to propose emoji for addition to the Unicode standard revisions.
Further reading: Everything You Need to Know About Finland — In Four Emojis from the Wall Street Journal
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Apple and Microsoft lobbied against hunting rifle emoji, Unicode 9.0 won’t have it
It’s a summer Olympics year and what better time would it have been to introduce new emoji with all of the activities from the Olympiad. Boxing, the pentathalon, handball and skeet. Well, you might have to do without the skeet — the rifle emoji that was already approved to be in the Unicode 9.0 standard that was released Thursday has been scrapped.The Unicode Consortium, which deliberates and enacts the standards of characters in software such as emoji, confirmed that the symbol was dropped ...
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Unicode 9 set has no dumpling emoji, but adds 74 other emoji
The peach. The eggplant. Okay, nevermind those.Last time around, it was the taco that made waves in the digital messaging sphere. What can we look forward to as the next big emoji? Not a dumpling one — at least, not anytime soon.The Unicode Consortium has taken in 74 emoji into its new Unicode 9 standard, set for release in June. While operating system publishers have to deal with
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