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• Android might separate emoji from OS updates so you can get new ones faster

  Emoji are important. Heck, they were the biggest reason I wanted to write about the recent iOS 14.2 update. More emoji ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why skin tone modifiers don't work for 🤝, explained by an emoji historian

  Why doesn't the 🤝 emoji support skin tones? It's a mystery that has troubled Redditors for years — so we asked an emoji ...

  • Mix

• Algorithm reveals which new emoji Twitter users most desire

  Researchers from the Haslam College of Business and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are tracking the most requested ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 4 eye-opening facts about emoji, explained by an emoji historian

  TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer ...

  • Flavia Pollastrini

• Polish electric vehicle advocate lobbies for EV emoji, because why not?

  The Polish Alternative Fuel Association is lobbying for the introduction of a universally recognized emoji for electric vehicles ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Moonday Mornings: Twitter adds custom Bitcoin emoji

  Hello Forkers, welcome to Moonday Mornings! Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Unicode Consortium finally added a transgender flag emoji and more gender-inclusive designs

  The Unicode Consortium revealed 117 new 2020 emoji designs, and among them is a transgender flag and more gender-inclusive ...

  • Cara Curtis

• A cryptocurrency debunker's quixotic quest to save endangered marmots with an emoji

  The Vancouver Island Marmot is under threat, with only a couple of hundred observed in the wild. One cryptocurrency anti-influencer ...

  • David Canellis

• The new period emoji is a first step in ending period shame

  There's officially a "blood drop" emoji which will be added to smartphones by spring this year. This could be the first step ...

  • Cara Curtis