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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\u2019s the story?<\/p>\n
Believe it or not, emojis have actually existed since 1999\u2014 designed by Shigetaka Kurita, they weren’t really fully embraced by the masses until 2012 when Apple released iOS 6.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The emoji movement has since expanded to being regularly used on all sorts of social network sites, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and others.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Six billion emojis are sent every day. They\u2019ve come a long way from the original 1999 designs, which are on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the iPhone X launch, Apple announced their new Animoji. Facial recognition tracks 50 muscle movements.<\/p>\n
The iPhone X uses facial data to create the appropriate expressions.<\/p>\n
Snapchat\u2019s Actionmojis show what a user is likely doing at that time, sensors and GPS data guess the users activity.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s now even an emoji based social network. Polygram uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to map a user\u2019s facial recognition.<\/p>\n
However emojis may not be the answer to a universal language\u2026<\/p>\n
What do you think this this emoji means?<\/p>\n
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– Lifewire\/BBC Click<\/p>\n
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