It was an odd move. Because of the way emoji works– each emoji is essentially a sticker that an operating system slaps on top of an otherwise unreadable UTF-16 character code–changing the pistol emoji ...

has decided to abandon a gun emoji that resembles a realistic looking gun in favor of one that looks more like a toy squirt gun. Microsoft said this week via Twitter that the technology giant is "in ...

Google and Facebook are following in the footsteps of other tech giants by changing their pistol emojis into a toy water gun. The change should already be accessible for Android users via a software ...

A new update for Google’s Android devices will change the gun emoji from a cartoon revolver to a watered-down version of the firearm: a bright orange squirt gun. The update started rolling out for ...

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CUPERTINO (CBS SF) -- Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy. The latest operating system for iPhone and iPad users dropped Tuesday, with 70 new emoji icons ...