Looks like Apple will sell a clear case for the iPhone XR

With a glass back and the more eye-catching colour options for the iPhone XR, it makes sense that Apple would want to sell a clear case for the phone. As spotted on the official press release on Apple’s Canadian Newsroom, a clear case will go on sale for CA$55. You can see it in the marketing image 9to5Mac has gotten a hold of above. Whether this will be released alongside the phone, we can’t say at the moment. But the phone will be on pre-order starting Friday, October 19, and will come to stores on the following Friday, October 26.

Guess you can take sillier photos of your cat on Snapchat now

Snapchat filters can be fun and weird or a mix of both. If you already take silly pictures of your kitty, this new update might be something you’d appreciate. Snapchat just rolled out Cat Lenses, which lets you add everything from unicorn horns, googly eyes, to toast hats. TechCrunch points out this seems to be built on the object recognition system the social network rolled out last year, which recommends filters based on the objects it recognizes are in frame.

Here’s how you can check if your Facebook data was accessed in recently discovered hack

A recently discovered Facebook hack has affected millions of its users but the social network hasn’t shared what type of information was accessed—until today. The company has detailed what type of information was accessed during that wide-scale hack. And these include users’ names, email addresses, phone number, and other personal details like locations, religion, etc. The data on 29 million people were viewed and Facebook shared how you can see if your data was seen. You can check this page on Facebook’s Help Center to see if your account was affected. If it was, you’ll see the message above and it’ll show what information of yours was accessed.

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Twitter counts emojis equally now, no matter what gender or race

Emojis have gotten more and more inclusive but there is a quirk in the way Unicode handles emojis with some taking up more characters than others. This wouldn’t be much of a problem but with Twitter’s 280 characters, this might dissuade people from using the ones they identify with and go back to using the default colours and genders. You see in some cases, the more inclusive emojis end up taking more than two characters than the original yellow one. Emojipedia notes that an emoji on its own can take two characters but then you add a skin tone modifier that adds two more, and then you add a gender on top of that and that increases to nine characters all in all. What Twitter has done is treat all of these as two characters. It might be considered a small move but it does encourage people to use a more identifiable emoji in their tweets.

Source: The Verge