Tag Archives: Symbols
Emoji join Dali and van Gogh in New York’s MoMA
You might think of emoji as a lowbrow form of communication, but according to MoMA, it's art. The museum added the original 176 emoji, developed by Shigetaka Kurita for Japanese pagers in 1999, to its collection. "With the advent of email in the 1970...
Chrome’s latest tool checks your website’s security
You may never notice Chrome's green lock showing that an HTTPS site is 100 percent secure, but developers pay rapt attention to it. That's because Google prioritizes search results for sites with the strongest security, so a problematic site could fi...
SwiftKey launches assistive app for users with special needs
SwiftKey released a new app on Thursday designed to give users with learning disabilities (those living with autism, for example) a non-verbal means of communication with friends and family. The app, called Symbols, allows these users to construct se...
Chrome shows sites with minor security issues as totally insecure
Google has just launched Chrome 46, and there's a significant change in how it notifies you about web security. If you're on an HTTPS site that's 100 percent secure, you'll still see a green lock icon, and broken sites show a red "X" symbol, as bef...