Business & Tech Hold On To Your Peaches: Facebook, Instagram Ban The 'Sexual Use’ Of Emoji For those who fancy employing emojis in suggestive fashions — which, let’s be honest, is every person with an internet-connected device — using them in such ways on Facebook and Instagram could (potentially) cause you to get banned from either platform.
SF News Disagreement Over Proper Cheeseburger Topping Placement In Emoji Prompts Google CEO To Make Some Changes I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal)
Arts & Entertainment Apple Unveils New Exploding Head, Zombie, Bearded Man Emoji Did you know it was World Emoji Day? Neither did I! Anyway, in honor of this non-holiday, Apple just previewed a gaggle of fun new emoji that will be part of iOS 11,
Arts & Entertainment New iOS Emoji Include Avocado, Facepalm, And What Appears To Be Harambe iPhone users, your visual vocabulary is about to increase by 72 emoji. 9to5mac and Emojipedia write that Apple has released to registered developers the first iOS 10.2 beta for iPhone and iPad.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bernal Rock Becomes Poop Emoji The locally famous Bernal Heights rock, a frequently painted and re-painted neighborhood gem, is starting to get sh***y. During primary season, you may recall, the landmark was claimed by fans of Bernie
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
SF News Working Women Get Some Digital Representation With Newly Approved Emoji Following a pitch by Google in May, the Unicode Consortium announced that it will add 11 new emoji to the world's smart phone keyboards. Google wrote about the decision today, noting that new
Arts & Entertainment 72 New Emoji Arriving In June Include New Penis Stand-Ins Cucumber And Baguette The shadowy (but not really) Unicode Consortium has approved 72 new emoji after a flood of public input which will be included in the Unicode 9.0 release, arriving in June 2016. The
SF News Google Presses Unicode For 'Working Women' Emoji Google put forth a proposal this week addressing what it views as the under representation of women in the world of emoji. Specifically, the Mountain View-based company argued in a Tuesday presentation to
Arts & Entertainment Oxford Dictionaries Chooses A F***ing Emoji As Word Of The Year It's either the end of civilization as we know it or a terrific step in the academic recognition of the evolving importance of the visual language of emoji, depending on your perspective. But
Arts & Entertainment Now Your iPhone Comes With A Burrito Emoji Apple yesterday released an update to its mobile operating system, iOS 9.1, and while the update included various bug fixes and (we're sure) important upgrades to system functionality, the clear stars of
SF News Facebook Testing Six New Reaction Emoji But No 'Dislike' Button Welp, despite implying last month that Facebook would be getting a Dislike button to go with the Like button, it appears that the site is instead testing a range of six reaction buttons
Arts & Entertainment Video: Behold, The Full-Size Emoji Keyboard For no reason other than making good YouTube fodder, the world now has a full-scale emoji keyboard, featuring every emoji currently in existence, plus a few that aren't even compatible with most devices
Arts & Entertainment New Emoji Coming Soon Include Eyeroll Face, Unicorn Face, And Taco 41 new emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium as part of the latest release of the universal picture-based texting array, Unicode 8.0. iPhone users may have to wait until September
Arts & Entertainment Apple Adds Racially Diverse Emoji; Asians Already Crying 'Yellowface!' In the next update of Apple's OS and iOS, there will be new sets of emoji in six different skin tones, in order to reflect the racial diversity of the planet, and iPhone
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Micro-Climates, And June Gloom, Described In Emoji As we mentioned the other day, the Mission is where you can often succeed in outrunning the fog during these summer months. And on some afternoons when the fog has burned off over
