Emoji finally get some racial diversity

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Now you'll finally be able to share an emoji that looks like you, or at least more like your skin color.

Emoji, by the way, are those tiny digital images (faces, thumbs up, etc.), used to quickly express emotions and ideas in a kind of visual shorthand.

See also: Who Controls Emoji Anyway?

The Unicode Consortium, the group that governs the emoji standard, proposed an update on Tuesday that addresses emoji diversity. It noted that while emoji characters were always intended to be generic, the color choices were invariably light-toned or yellow, leaving vast swaths of the human population unrepresented. Read more...

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