If Apple is serious about influencing the debate around gun control, there are smarter ways to effect change. Here’s why. First things first. Emoji aren’t just an arbitrary collection of ...

iOS 10, which will be available for free download this fall, removes the revolver emoji and replaces it with a squirt gun. The change is available now to developers who download iOS 10 beta 4 ...

It appears Google is the latest tech company to replace its gun emoji with a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to ...

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including a green water gun to replace its gun emoji. In September, Apple will release 100 new and updated emojis, including a green water gun to replace its gun emoji. @CNN/Twitter Apple will ...

The firearm emoji you might have seen in the past has been morphed into a less violent water gun by all major vendors in recent years. Twitter, which uses its own custom emoji pack called Twemoji ...

Elon Musk has brought about a lot of change to the platform formerly known as Twitter. Most notably, he dropped the Twitter name for "X." He completely stripped verification of all of its meaning.

Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green and orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.

But the emoji hadn’t depicted realistic guns for years. Until now. Broni calls the change one of the most significant updates to emoji design in years. Critics of the platform’s direction ...

This potential problem boiled over into public controversy regarding the gun emoji. Unicode character U+1F52B had been assigned to a left-facing pistol. In the same way that a Unicode character ...

In 2018, a man in New South Wales, Australia pleaded guilty to stalking, using a carriage service to menace, and breaching an apprehended violence order (AVO), after he sent an emoji of a gun ...