The search giant said that the new emojis will be available by the end of the year on Android and next year on other Google products. Along with the color version of the updated Noto font, the company has also published a revamped monochrome version of the font with new emojis. Google first launched monochrome emojis earlier this year as a nod to emojis on old feature phones.
https://tcrn.ch/3S41SGk
Month: September 2022
Corel Rebrands as Alludo But ProductNames Will Live On
Taking a page from Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta, Corel—the Canada-based maker of creative software like PaintShop Pro, VideoStudio, WinZip, MindManager, and Parallels Desktop since 1985—is rebranding as Alludo.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/corel-rebrands-as-alludo-but-product-names-will-live-on
Zoom’s Slack competitor is getting a new name and features
On Monday, Zoom announced a small change to the name of the product — it’s now called Zoom Team Chat — alongside a handful of other handy updates coming to the collaboration software.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23345352/zoom-team-chat-name-features
Here’s a First Look at iPhone 14 Pro’s New Dynamic Island Notch
With a combination of hardware and software, the Dynamic Island can morph into different shapes and sizes for things such as incoming phone calls, alerts, notifications, Face ID authentication, timers, turn-by-turn navigation, and more. The pill-shaped cutout takes up less space than the traditional notch did on the iPhone 13 Pro models.
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/07/iphone-14-pro-dynamic-island-notch/
Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
“We’ve built systems with open borders. The result of these open systems and open culture is well described with an analogy: Imagine you hold a bottle of ink in your hand. This bottle of ink is a mixture of all kinds of user data (3PD, 1PD, SCD, Europe, etc.) You pour that ink into a lake of water (our open data systems; our open culture) … and it flows … everywhere,” the document read. “How do you put that ink back in the bottle? How do you organize it again, such that it only flows to the allowed places in the lake?”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk3wb/facebook-engineers-admit-they-dont-know-what-they-do-with-your-data
The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit
“They have access to it 24/7 in the palm of their hands,” Cindi said. “The temptation is always there. You can stay away from casinos and racetracks but you can’t stop using your phone.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake7gk/the-rise-of-mobile-gambling-is-leaving-people-ruined-and-unable-to-quit
What to expect at Apple’s ‘far out’ iPhone 14 event
With the new iPhone expected to take center stage, many analysts don’t expect Apple to release new iPads or Mac computers until October. Of course, the rumor mill can always be wrong about these things. Apple is also unlikely to debut its previously rumored and much-anticipated AR headset on Wednesday.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/06/tech/apple-event-new-iphone/index.html