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Now Even Emoji Are Getting Delayed Due To Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has already been wrecking release schedules for everything from blockbuster movies to new operating systems. But now, even something that’s been helping people stay connected in this time of social distancing is running into issues: emoji.
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What Does The New Emoji Sign Say?
More than 100 new emoji were officially announced on Wednesday, among them more inclusive emoji, a “pinched fingers emoji,” and a dodo bird. But one emoji in particular—the newly introduced placard—confounded Gizmodo staffers, all of whom read radically different wording on the sign.
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Ford Secretly Created The New Pickup Truck Emoji Because Nothing Is Sacred
Yesterday was World Emoji Day, a fake but harmless holiday created by the founder of Emojipedia. To celebrate this year, Ford slyly revealed that it has succeeded in surreptitiously creating the pickup emoji. The company hired a marketing firm and a technology agency to pitch the Unicode Consortium of the pickup truck emoji concept. Unicode apparently…
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Squid Expert On Apple’s Tortured Squid Emoji: It’s Like ‘Having A Butt On Your Forehead’
In what now seems to be an egregious oversight on the part of Apple, the scientific community this week flagged an anatomically incorrect squid emoji in the manner any good critic does: by mercilessly owning it on Twitter.