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Here are the 70 new emoji coming to iOS

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by on July 16, 2018 at 9:55 pm
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Poised to celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17, Apple has released previews of the next 70 emoji coming to iPhone, iPad, Macs, and Apple Watch with a free software update. These update include a number of human emoji, along with a handful of animal and food emoji. Among the new batch, Apple plans to finally, finally add redheads to the roster of human emoji, along with bald heads, grey hair and curly hair — so it’s quite an update for hair (or lack thereof). These hair updates come in the full range of skin tones as well. Emoji face updates include…

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Here are the 70 new emoji coming to iOS

Jul16
by on July 16, 2018 at 9:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Poised to celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17, Apple has released previews of the next 70 emoji coming to iPhone, iPad, Macs, and Apple Watch with a free software update. These update include a number of human emoji, along with a handful of animal and food emoji. Among the new batch, Apple plans to finally, finally add redheads to the roster of human emoji, along with bald heads, grey hair and curly hair — so it’s quite an update for hair (or lack thereof). These hair updates come in the full range of skin tones as well. Emoji face updates include…

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Chinese authorities are sampling sewage to flush out drug users

Jul16
by on July 16, 2018 at 6:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, world


The Chinese government is analyzing urine and feces from sewage as part of a sweeping national crackdown on illegal drug use. China isn’t the first country to sift through sewage in order to collect data on illegal drug use, but as far as we know it’s the first to implement the technique in actual law enforcement situations — a move which prompts a litany of privacy and citizen safety concerns. According to a report from Nature, authorities used an analysis of sewage in the Chinese city of Zhongshan to locate and arrest a drug manufacturing operation. And there are already…

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An Uncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion just dropped on YouTube

Jul16
by on July 16, 2018 at 4:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Nathan Fillion just released an Uncharted fan film to YouTube, and hot diggity this Monday just got a whole lot better. The fifteen-minute slice of fun was directed by Allan Ungar — a huge fan of the series, according to IGN — and stars Fillion as the wisecracking treasure hunter. Stephen Lang and Mircea Monroe back him up as Sully and Elena respectively. Go ahead and watch it here: This was apparently teased last week when Fillion posted a pic to Instagram of rapper Drake with the caption “Sic Parvis Magna” — the Latin motto of Sir Francis Drake. At the time, I’d have…

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Shillingham United XI: A dream team of footballers backing crappy cryptocurrencies

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by on July 16, 2018 at 3:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Have you been noticing just how many footballers have been signing deals with initial coin offerings (ICOs)? News broke last week that Didier Drogba, former Chelsea star and Ivory Coast’s all-time highest scoring striker, has become the latest sports celebrity to officially endorse a cryptocurrency startup. He is the newest ambassador of fledgling crypto-trader social media platform – all.me – which has purportedly already raised over $30 million in funding and will be conducting their ICO later this year. To celebrate this ‘momentous occasion’, we’ve decided to put together a dream team of the most popular footballers to have lent…

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