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A documentary filmmaker, tech journalist and renowned digital designer this week submitted a proposal to the Unicode Consortium to create a new emoji representing the iconic “shaka” hand gesture. The shaka — featuring the thumb and pinky extended while the middle three fingers are curled — is a globally recognizable symbol of the aloha spirit and Hawaiʻi’s diverse culture.

In the evolving landscape of social media communication, the adoption of delusions is portrayed as a means to achieve tranquillity in the digital world order. This shift is marked by linguistic transformations across platforms, with emerging terminologies reflecting societal trends. The integration of technology accelerates language evolution, exemplified by the term "Gaslighting" being Merriam-Webster Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2022. However, not all evolving language alig...

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The 'World Emoji Day', marked on 17 July, is a chance to look back at the developments in communications and the social media lexicon.

The Rohingya language remained an oral tradition until the 1980s when Mohammad Hanif, an Islamic scholar, developed a script based on Arabic letters and a set of decimal numbers.

The Hanifi Rohingya script was included in a 2019 upgrade to the Unicode Standard, a global encoding system that changes written script into digital characters and numbers. Now, Rohingya can now email, text, and post on social media in their own language.

New emoji, new widgets, and more are coming to iOS 16.4.

Increasingly smaller, faster and larger-capacity memory has been one of the major drivers of technological advances in computers. This two-part series covers how ephemeral data is stored and what it is stored in. by Dr David Maddison

Samsung will be one of the last Android phones to support emojis from Unicode 14, but also one of the first to support Unicode 15.

The Unicode Consortium have today approved a set of 31 new emojis that include a shaking face and pink heart. Support for the emojis will be rolled out on different platforms over the next few months.