The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

X has dropped the "water pistol" emoji, which was depicted as a colorful and harmless looking child's toy — and replaced it with an emoji depicting an actual gun.

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 ...

The tech giant Google follows companies like Apple and Samsung in rolling out a water gun emoji as a replacement for the handgun.

There will be a number of new and updated emojis in Apple's iOS 10, including a replacement for the controversial pistol emoji.

The water gun update in iOS 10 makes Apple’s position even clearer: guns---real guns---have no place in our emoji vocabulary. What’s less clear is how this update will affect users.

Apple is just changing the design of an existing emoji. And it wouldn’t be the first company to make this particular change: On Microsoft devices, the pistol emoji looks like a toy ray-gun.

By changing the meaning of a universal symbol, Apple's attempt to take a stand on gun control could have the opposite effect.

Windows 10's poop emoji doesn't smile, as Apple's does, because while it may be cute, it doesn't hold to the spirit of the official Unicode definition, which is literally "a pile of feces." Seriously.

X changed its water pistol emoji to a normal firearm, six years after Twitter decided to follow the lead of other companies and get rid of its gun emoji.

Other Twitter emoji that have received a refresh include the kitchen knife, which now looks more like a chef’s tool with a riveted handle, the crystal ball with new, curved holding base, and the ...

According to a report from Buzzfeed, Apple objected to the idea of introducing a second gun emoji on its platforms, and Microsoft joined in.