Apple celebrates Emoji Day with 70 new emoji across its platforms

As emoji continue to proliferate as one of the preferred ways to communicate, the need for more specific and more inclusive emoji continues to grow. Apple is giving users of iOS and Mac OS 70 new emoji to express themselves better including a range of Canada-specific icons. Some Canadiana-focused Emoji include a lobster, bagel, racoon, hiking boot and cold face.

More than 70 new emoji characters are coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac later this year in a free software update. The new emoji designs, created based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0, include even more hair options to better represent people with red hair, grey hair and curly hair, a new emoji for bald people, and new smiley faces that bring more expression to Messages with a cold face, party face, pleading face and a face with hearts.

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Nintendo promises more updates for ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ on the Switch

If you wanted more out of your Mario Kart 8 Deluxe experience on the Nintendo Switch, you’re getting that. Nintendo’s head of software development Shinya Takahashi confirmed in a Twitter video that there will be more updates to the popular Super Mario game. He, however, didn’t elaborate on what the updates will bring and when they’re arriving. One of the latest announcements is the game is now compatible with Nintendo Labo.

Mr. Takahashi answered a few questions on some of his favorite #NintendoSwitch titles, including The Legend of #Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and #Splatoon2! pic.twitter.com/UsKJKHNfLT

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 12, 2018

Source: GameSpot

Netflix’s ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ opens its social media accounts

While we don’t have a release date just yet, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina aptly opened its official Twitter and Instagram accounts on Friday the 13^th. You can now follow closely and get hints about the upcoming Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot. While the teasers are rather cryptic, these do give us a hint of what the series is going to be like.

Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is behind this darker take on Sabrina’s life. It is based off the comic book series of the same name and has been said to be “tonally in the vein of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘The Exorcist’” with Sabrina trying to navigate her life has a half-witch, half-mortal while “standing against evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.”

Adobe is working on a full version of Photoshop for the iPad

Hoping to boost subscription sales and help on-the-go creatives (especially those working in the media and entertainment fields), Adobe is working on launching a full version of its Photoshop app for the Apple iPad. A report from Bloomberg claims the app will be launched at this year’s MAX creative conference in October and will hit the market sometime next year. As the report says, “Engineering delays could still alter that timeline.”

Adobe’s Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky confirmed that the company is working on a full, cross-platform iteration of Photoshop and its other apps but he won’t give a specific timeline when it comes to the release. When this launches, it will give users the ability to continue edits from one device to another. You could point out that existing apps have companion versions through the company’s Creative Cloud subscription service, but these apps are, as Bloomberg pointed out, based on “aging architectures with different underpinnings for each device.”