It was an odd move. Because of the way emoji works– each emoji is essentially a sticker that an operating system slaps on top of an otherwise unreadable UTF-16 character code–changing the pistol emoji ...

Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The gun swap is just one of ...

When Apple (AAPL) releases more than 100 new and redesigned emojis later this year, fans of the black gun are likely to be disappointed - the menacing symbol is going to be replaced with a green water ...

Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, hate speech and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The gun swap ...

The right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution, but not in your text messages. As a tech company, Apple doesn’t have an obvious stake in the gun control debate. But a recently announced ...

Following the lead of several other big tech companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Twitter, Google has changed the gun emoji on its platform to a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, the update ...

Meet the revolver emoji's replacement: a bright green and orange squirt gun icon. Apple The revolver emoji in Apple devices will be removed from the emoji keyboard in an upcoming software update and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The ...

Apple will replace its handgun emoji with a water pistol when it releases its iOS 10 operating system later this year. The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange ...