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When the news hit Monday that Apple’s next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we’d finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human emoji.

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

The “cry laughing” emoji has been my nemesis for as long as I can remember. Officially titled Face with Tears of Joy, it’s been tainted by years of misuse and overuse. Its spiritual home is Facebook, ...