Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 03-12-2017

No message, post or comment is complete without an emoji and they have come a long way to express emotion that words cannot describe. There is even a movie about the emoji. So, what’s the story?

Believe it or not, emojis have actually existed since 1999— designed by Shigetaka Kurita, they weren’t really fully embraced by the masses until 2012 when Apple released iOS 6.

iPhone uses quickly learned that they could activate the emoji keyboard in iOS 6 to add fun little smileys and icons in their text messages.

The emoji movement has since expanded to being regularly used on all sorts of social network sites, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and others.

The emoji craze had caught on so much throughout 2012 and 2013 that it was added as a real word by the one and only Oxford Dictionaries in August 2013.

Six billion emojis are sent every day. They’ve come a long way from the original 1999 designs, which are on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Ahead of the iPhone X launch, Apple announced their new Animoji. Facial recognition tracks 50 muscle movements.

The iPhone X uses facial data to create the appropriate expressions.

Snapchat’s Actionmojis show what a user is likely doing at that time, sensors and GPS data guess the users activity.

There’s now even an emoji based social network. Polygram uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to map a user’s facial recognition.

However emojis may not be the answer to a universal language…

What do you think this this emoji means?

– Lifewire/BBC Click

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