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Canadian Judge Allows Thumbs Up Emoji As Legal Form of a Contract Agreement
A judge in Canada has ruled that the “thumbs-up” emoji is an official form of a contract agreement and has cost a farmer C$82,000. Thumbs Up Contract Agreement As reported by The Guardian, the thumbs up emoji has been ruled as a valid form of a signature to agree to…
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Researchers Find That People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex!
When using your social media accounts, do you tend to use a lot of emojis? -If you do, then it may be revealing something about you that you didn’t realise. Particularly if you use them pretty often! In a report via CNET, researchers conducted a study in which they concluded…
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Developer Preview 2 of Android N Released By Google
Last month, Google made a developer preview version of the upcoming version of their popular mobile operating system, named Android N, available for public download. This release included a number of great new features including split screen functionality and more. Now, a second version of the Android N developer preview…
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12-Year-Old Girl Facing Criminal Charges Over Emoji Use
A 12-year-old girl from Fairfax, Virginia, USA has been charged with threatening to commit an attack against her school in a post on Instagram, The Washington Post reports. The offending message in question contained no direct threats, nor any verbal intent that the girl meant harm against her school or…
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This Emoji Keyboard Will Set You Back $100!
Emojis have quickly become the latest method for many people to communicate online and express emotion. Previously, people opted for text-based solutions which resembled a number of human responses. Up to this point, Emojis required a mobile touch interface to implement various icons during conversations on social media. This makes…
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Facebook Research Reveals “LOL” is in Decline
Facebook has conducted a research paper on the communication behaviour of its users and language used to express laughter. The data was collected during the last week of May and analyzed any prominent string of characters matching laughter. Interestingly, “haha” was the most popular response with 51.4%, followed by an…
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Here Is the Truth About WhatsApp’s Middle Finger and Vulcan Salute Emojis
There’s been a lot of talks about some middle finger and Vulcan salute emojis previously found in the desktop version of WhatsApp. Metro found the emojis packed away in WhatsApp’s bundled files, but thought they were a secret. However, The Next Web explained that they are not actually secret emojis,…
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Sony Pictures Animation to Produce Emoji Film
Sony Pictures Animation has successfully outbid two major Hollywood studios to win the commercial rights to produce an animated movie based on Emojis. According to Deadline, the project will be written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis with the latter also opting for a director’s role. Sony believes they can capture…
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4Chan Anon Developing Emoji Programming Language
Emojis, a collection of ideagrams born out a unique brand of shorthand born out of the electronic communications, has fast become the universal language of the internet, so was only a matter of time before the character set was implemented as one of tech’s sub-languages, programming code. A resourceful member…
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Sonder Customisable Keyboard Changes the Display of the Keys
The most used input device of a modern-day computer is the keyboard. Most of you out there use it on a daily basis and have become quite proficient with the QWERTY layout. Or maybe you prefer the Dvorak keyboard layout. This yet to be released keyboard from Sonder lets you…
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‘Tweet-A-Pizza’ Coming to Domino’s This Month
Do you fancy Domino’s pizza and use Twitter on a regular basis? Then you will be happy to hear that the company is looking into techy ways of attracting customers and will add a ‘tweet-a-pizza’ system starting from May 20th in the US. What all of this means is that…
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Facebook Bans ‘Feeling Fat’?
Facebook users know that you can post a vast number of activities on your timeline, from what you are doing, like watching a certain movie, to how you are feeling at a moment in time. But have you ever wanted to post that you are feeling a bit ‘fat-ish’ after…
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Emoji Is Coming to Chrome on OS X
Google’s Chrome is very popular browser among users of Apple’s OS X. However, in this age of Social Media, the browser has had one very notable omission – emoji. Yes, it’s amazing to think that any browser is without the popular snippets of emotion littered across the web. Finally though,…
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Emoji-Only Social App Coming Soon – Human Intelligence Doomed
This is it, mankind’s final frontier into destroying its greatest achievement, words. I personally do not like this idea of an Emoji-only social app but over 10,000 people have already signed up for their Emoji-only usernames for the social media app which in a trailer (below) says it’s coming…
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Real Life Emoji’s Are Just Plain Scary
Non-profit group Innocence en Danger has created a campaign to highlight the dangers of children talking to strangers online by creating emoji’s using real human faces. The emjoi has long been used as a series of cartoony like images to show off emotions in text messages, instant messaging and skype.…
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