Social media companies have united to ban a rifle emoji that would have become available in June on smartphones. Members of the Unicode Consortium, who are responsible for regulating emoji, voted ...

Turns out Microsoft and Apple are on opposing sides when it comes to the emoji gun control debate. Less than a week after Apple changed its pistol emoji to a water gun, Microsoft is taking a ...

(NEW YORK) — There’s an emoji for almost everything now — from robots to tacos to lollipops — but the one emoji that recently got the cut: a rifle. Members of the Unicode Consortium, the group ...

Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, hate speech and ...

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The gun ...

Following the lead of several other big tech companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Twitter, Google has changed the gun emoji on its platform to a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, the update ...

The next emoji update will be two characters short of what was originally planned -- the result of a "late stage" change, according to the organization overseeing the symbols. Now, a new report ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Following an online push for Apple to remove the gun emoji, the tech giant decided to replace the regular gun emoji with a water gun. It’s being met with mixed reactions ...

It appears Google is the latest tech company to replace its gun emoji with a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to ...

A new update for Android users replaces the gun emoji with an orange-and-yellow toy water pistol, Emojipedia announced in a blog post Tuesday. » RELATED: Do you have the new Gmail? Google's email gets ...

An update to Android’s inbuilt emoji database will change the pistol emoji into a Super Soaker-style water pistol, bringing Google’s operating system in line with a growing trend over the last couple ...

In 2016, Apple converted its gun emoji to a water pistol for unspecified reasons. It didn't catch on until recently, amid the tense atmosphere on gun violence across America. Now, Google is following ...