Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after real-life pistols. While Microsoft’s looked more like a ray gun from a science fiction movie. But in iOS 10, Apple was the ...

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 ...

Microsoft and others. Apple apparently used its influence with Unicode to prevent two emoji with guns in them from appearing in the update, according to an earlier report in BuzzFeed. The Unicode ...