Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode ...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft are joining other tech giants in ditching their handgun emoji, choosing instead to render it on their platforms as a squirt gun. Microsoft tweeted Wednesday that it was ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer on X, ...

Turns out Microsoft and Apple are on opposing sides when it comes to the emoji gun control debate. Less than a week after Apple changed its pistol emoji to a water gun, Microsoft is taking a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The symbol has been a water gun on most devices for years. The symbol has been a water gun on most devices for ...

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