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There are only eight new emojis being released this year. There is only one for the climate crisis. New apps are letting people make their own. Take a look.
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.
Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.
Twitter's new 'X' logo may pose a legal risk to the company, as online records show that Meta trademarked an 'X' logo in 2019. Experts say it would be up to a judge to decide.
Twitter's new logo, 𝕏, is a Unicode character that's been used in math notation and textbooks for decades, one researcher said.
Unicode solicited her feedback on it, and she found some of the characters were inaccurate, forcing her to start work on digitizing the script correctly. Murthy spent the following five years ...
If the package installed contains files whose name has unicode character like 文件, the problem will occur. In China (I don't know other places), for historical reasons, the Windows default system codec ...
As both the mother of a child with a disability and a journalist who covers disability-related issues, I’ve trained myself to look past labels to consider individuals.
I get 2 indexed reads with test_unicode_ci_ai and 1 indexed read with test_unicode, with millions of records the problem escalates. The workaround is to create the index unique by adding a numeric ...
There are three different ways to do it, which is ironic because the story goes that Prince actually changed his name to a symbol to give Warner Bros., his record label, a hard time after some ...