Google is announcing a series of updates coming soon to Android devices that are designed to make it easier to communicate, share files, personalize your devices, and for people with hearing or visual impairments to use their devices. For example, Google’s Nearby Share feature already lets you send files between Android phones or tablets or […]
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Lilbits: Steam Deck supports 4,500+ PC games, Samsung Galaxy Watch5 launched, and Microsoft makes porting x86 apps to Windows on ARM easier
Comments Off on Lilbits: Steam Deck supports 4,500+ PC games, Samsung Galaxy Watch5 launched, and Microsoft makes porting x86 apps to Windows on ARM easierValve’s Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer that ships with a Linux-based operating system called Steam OS. But while most PC games are designed to run on Windows, many of them are also playable on the Steam Deck either because developers have ported them to the platform or because Valve’s Proton compatibility software allows […]
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Opera is the first browser to support emoji-only URLS (that are also NFTs)
The first website went live more than three decades ago, and while we’ve seen a lot of changes to the web since then, one thing has remained largely constant: you get to websites either by typing a string of letters and numbers into your web browser or by clicking a bookmark or link. But the […]
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Lilbits: Framework’s future, iMessage reactions in Google Messages, and more
Framework’s modular laptop is already one of the most repairable, customizable notebooks on the market thanks to a design that not only lets you swap out the memory, storage, and battery, but even the ports. But the makers of the laptop say they’re already working on plans for new modules for the laptop… and entirely […]
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Lilbits: KDE Plasma 5.23, OpenBSD 7.0, Windows 11, and yet another mini-laptop
Ubuntu 21.10 isn’t the only new release of a free and open source operating system today. The OpenBSD team have also released version 7.0 of their Unix-like operating system based on BSD rather than Linux. And while operating systems are cool and everything, they’re not much use these days without a proper desktop environment, and […]
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Unicode Consortium says there will be no new emoji in 2021 (Updated)
The organization responsible for publishing the Unicode Standard says that it’s pushing back the release of Unicode 14.0 by six months due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In a nutshell, a lot of volunteer time goes into producing an updated standard, and many volunteers have a lot of other things on their minds at […]
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Google gives older Android devices an all-access emoji pass
If your Android device is running Nougat, you’ve got more than 1,700 emoji at your fingertips. You can use them to invite your friends to play water polo with a clown or assure them you don’t know who ate all the bacon. At least you can if they’re also running Nougat. On an older Android […]
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Unicode 10 includes a Bitcoin sign, Colbert emoji (with one eyebrow raised)
The Unicode Consortium has released version 10 of the Unicode Standard, adding more than 8 thousand new characters including 56 new emoji characters, which are part of the new Emoji 5.0 standard. Some highlights include the addition of a Bitcoin sign and emoji for dumplings, sandwiches, pretzels, broccoli, and a “face with raised eyebrow,” which […]
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Google overhauls emoji for Android O
Google Android O is coming later this year, and along with a long list of new features and performance tweaks, the operating system is getting new emoji. Like a lot of them. According to emojipedia, every single one has been redesigned for Android O. And Fast Company has an article exploring the thinking that went […]
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Face Palm, Shrug, and Selfie emoji could be coming in 2016
It might be a while before you can include a dumpling emoji in a text message. But later this year you might be able to add a croissant, avocado, owl, or sneezing face with the tap of a button. Unicode 9.0 will be released in June, 2016 and the Unicode Consortium has just unveiled 74 characters […]