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Hot Dog, Cheese, Taco, Hockey and More in Unicode 8.0 Emoji Additions
The Unicode Consortium has today announced the emoji candidates for inclusion in Unicode 8.0, due in mid-2015. Popularly requested emoji accepted as candidates include the Hot Dog Emoji, Cheese and...
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Android 5.0 Emoji Changelog
Google's emoji artwork has come a long way. Just one year ago, this is how Android displayed emoji: Having black and white alien faces portraying a range of emotions such as happiness, sadness or love...
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Emoji Updates in OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3: Skin Tone Modifiers, New Flags,...
Update April 2015: iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3 have been released, and some of the emoji details have changed. The pre-release versions of OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3, released to developers today, feature a...
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Chrome For Mac Finally Supports Emoji 🎉
Google Chrome has been updated to version 41, which includes support for native emoji on the Mac for the first time. Often considered a front-runner for new web standards and technologies, Chrome's...
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Apple 2015 Emoji Changelog
Apple has released its latest set of emoji characters to the public as part of iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3. There's a lot that is new. Previously reported changes to Apple's emoji lineup have continued,...
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The Trouble With Redheads
The results are in: diverse emoji support is either inclusive, divisive, overdue, or not even necessary. Separate from the debate on the necessity of skin tone modifiers, is the question of a redhead1...
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More Emoji Flags Come To iOS
The iOS 9 beta 1 released to developers this week at WWDC contains a new flags category on the emoji keyboard, support for new flags, and placeholders for additional flags that might be on the way....
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Unicode 8: What, And When
The Unicode Consortium has today released Unicode 8, which includes 37 new emojis such as the Face With Rolling Eyes, Hugging Face, Taco, Cheese Wedge and Hockey — both ice and field varieties. In...
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Flags For England, Scotland, Wales, More
A proposal to update the Unicode Standard to allow new emoji flag types has been released by the Unicode Consortium. If approved, this would allow England, Scotland, and Wales to have their own emoji...
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Announcing EmojiVote: The Vote That Matters
Your emoji suggestions now have a home on the web. To celebrate World Emoji Day, we have created EmojiVote. This is a subreddit moderated by Emojipedia, for the sole purpose of measuring interest in...
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Windows 10 Emoji Changelog
Update: Windows 10 has been released to the public as a free upgrade on July 29, 2015. All emoji updates listed below are included. Windows 10 is now the first major OS to support the Middle Finger...
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Unicode 9 Emoji Updates
The candidate list for Unicode 9 is taking shape, with the final list of new emojis scheduled for approval in mid-2016. 38 emoji characters have been accepted as candidates for the 2016 Unicode update,...
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Dude, where's my gavel?
Cracking eggs; a non-spiral sea shell; that black shirt. And who can forget the gavel emoji. A look at some iPhone emojis from a bygone era as well as what the future holds, in my article at Six Colors.
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New to Emojipedia: Samsung, Facebook, Emoji One
Some of the most highly requested emoji platforms are now supported on Emojipedia. Our latest site update is now live, including emojis from Samsung, Facebook, and Emoji One. Samsung Firstly, there is...
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Farewell, ads
Hello, and welcome to 2015: The year that we might view in hindsight as the start of peak display-ad on the web. We're not immune to this at Emojipedia. As much as we love what we do — documenting...
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Google Updates Gun Emoji
An update rolling out now to Android users has updated the gun emoji to appear as a toy water pistol, in line with recent changes by other vendors. It seems inevitable in retrospect. While vendors...
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All Major Vendors Commit to Gun Redesign
It's a flush. Every major vendor has now committed to redesign the gun emoji, replacing it with a water pistol / squirt gun design. It took a while, and then it happened all at once. In the days since...
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Windows 10 April 2018 Update Emoji Changelog
Microsoft's Windows 10 “April 2018 Update” (most commonly referred to as Spring Creators Update until now) has been released today with 104 emoji changes. Whilst there are no new additions to the...
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Emojiology: 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes
By many measures, 😂 Face With Tears of Joy has led the pack as the most used emoji in recent years. Dogging its heels, though, is another smiley: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes. In 2017, this emoji...
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Google I/O Opens With Emoji Apology
Google's developer conference opened this year with CEO Sundar Pichai addressing the burger emoji “controversy” of 2017. Google previously displayed the 🍔 Burger emoji with cheese underneath the burger...
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