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Black Emoji Are Finally Here

Sam Biddle · 02/23/15 03:10PM

After years of emoji that only sort of vaguely resemble white people, Apple is giving the world a rainbow of emoji that only sort of vaguely resemble humans of all races: Black Santa Claus is ready for your iPhone.

The Lost Emoji

Sam Biddle · 02/20/15 12:15PM

This summer, a very small council of people you've never heard of will make a very large pop-cultural impact when they release dozens of new emoji. But this crop of tiny phone art had to be narrowed down from a much larger bunch, which means we're likely missing out on what would've been some amazing specimens.

The Silk Road Trial Is Treating Emoji as Evidence

Andy Cush · 01/29/15 01:36PM

The trial of Ross Ulbricht—the man the federal government says was behind The Silk Road—has been a kind of legal coming-out party for the darker corners of the internet. Jurors have had to acquaint themselves with things like the anonymizing browser Tor, and Ulbricht's surprise defense involved the disgraced founder of a failed Bitcoin operation. But the courts have also had to contend with friendlier facets of web culture, like emoji.