Emoji

Always wanted a Star Wars phone? A Dark Side smartphone and a Light Side variant will be released in December. But these aren't the droids you're looking for. They only appear in Japan and in terms of network support that is a galaxy…

Mozilla has started a website to make the importance of encrypting messages clearer to 'regular internet users'. Codemoji should therefore be a 'fun, educational tool' to explain the basics of encryption.The Codemoji site allows users to…

Sublime Text is a comprehensive text editor that will especially appeal to programmers. Among the long list of features we find include a minimap, the ability to select different sections in a text for editing at the same time, syntax…

Version 5.5.1 of Tor Browser has been released. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the Internet fairly anonymously. All users' tcp traffic is routed through various Tor routers, after which it is…

In the coming weeks, Facebook will introduce the option for all users to respond to posts with a 'reaction emoji'. The different faces can be called up by pressing the 'like'-thumb longer.In October last year, Facebook started a test of…

A security researcher has found a way to crash WhatsApp by bombarding a victim with emoji. For example, the software appears to crash if more than 4000 emoji are sent in a message.The bug was discovered by Indrajeet Bhuyan, who describes…

Facebook is adding a Transportation component to its Messenger client. This allows users to call up journeys at transport services directly from the app. The first partner Facebook is working with is Uber.Transportation is part of…

Finland claims to be the first country in the world to publish a series of its own emojis. The series includes emoticons of a headbanger, a sauna and the Nokia 3310. The emoji of the phone is meant to indicate that something is…

The majority of people who want to express on Facebook that they think something is funny uses the expression 'haha'. In less than 2 percent of cases, people on Facebook say "LOL" to show that they have something to laugh about.'Haha'…

Apple has released an update to the software that runs on the Apple Watch. Updating the Apple Watch must be done through the app on the iPhone; instructions for that are on this page to find. Apple Watch OS 1.0.1 should, among other…