Google is known for building many impressive things: Google Search, Google Maps, the Pixel 2 XL. And yet, it doesn’t seem to know the simple formula for assembling a cheeseburger. The company’s problematic approach to making up everyone’s favorite meaty sandwich was pointed out on Twitter by writer Thomas Baekdal, who noted that in Google’s …
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You can never have too many emojis. Unicode’s president and co-founder Mark Davis announced that 67 new emojis have been marked as “draft candidates” for 2018. This means that they will be voted on in the upcoming months with final candidates included in the Unicode 11.0 launch June 2018. The emoji candidates come in a wide array. You’ve got your …
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Enlarge Image This emoji is one of a group that Apple will release later this year. Apple Apple’s new emojis will include a woman in a hijab, a woman breastfeeding, a man meditating and a man with a beard, Apple announced Monday. The emojis will come to iOS, MacOS and WatchOS later this year. The new slate of pictures and …
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Goodbye yellow blobs. Hello, new Google emoji. Yes, that’s right. Google’s finally changing its hideous old emoji for the next version of its mobile software, Android O. Instead of blobs where it’s almost too difficult to tell what the face is actually doing, the new emoji will look more like what you get on an Apple iPhone or a Samsung …
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Hulu is jumping into the battle for live TV viewers with its own cord-cutter service. It’ll face competition from streaming services like Playstation Vue, SlingTV and DirecTV Now, but Hulu has its advantages. We talk about how Hulu’s reputation and massive catalog will help it find success. CNET’s Ry Crist ordered his lunch through Amazon Echo. The feature marks the …
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Fear not, iPhone users, the butt emoji is back. Of course, there is no actual butt emoji — there are standards and practices against that sort of thing. But Apple‘s initial iOS 10.2 update changed the peach emoji, a longtime representative of the behind, into less of a butt and into more of an actual peach. That grave wrong, protested …
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Now playing: Watch this: Goodbye peach butt?! Big emoji changes in iOS 10.2 1:53 Enlarge Image Emojipedia Today saw the release of the developer preview for the newest version of Apple’s iOS 10, and with it came what we’ve all been waiting for. The announcement of new emojis. The fresh batch of emojis includes a shrug, an avocado, a face …
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GoDaddy wants to make all your emoji dreams come true. The internet domain registrar and web hosting company is making it easier to search for and register available emoji-based domains. On Friday, the company launched a search engine for emoji domains. People can visit the site on their phones, type in a string of emoji and see if the domain …
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Hamburger, hamburger, taco, praise hands? Yes, we know you’re hungry by the emojis you tweet out, and now advertisers will too. Twitter has unveiled a new feature allowing advertisers to target specific users with splashy ads, all based on the emojis they tweet out with their daily musings. With more than 110 billion emojis tweeted out since 2014, this could …
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