In honor of World Emoji Day (yes, thata thing), Apple is previewing some of its upcoming emoji. Later this year, Appleemoji set will feature people with a variety of hairstyles and colors, including curly hair, red hair and white hair. What you&re about to see are simply Appletake on emoji that were previously approved by the Unicode Consortiumemoji subcommittee.

Folks with curly hair, rejoice!

Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers

Lethear it for the redheads

Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers

Like white on rice

Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers

No hair No problem

Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers

Other fun emoji include a freezing face, peacock, mango, lobster, nazar amulet, superheroes and kangaroo.

Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers

Back in March, Apple proposed new emojis to represent people with disabilitiesin Unicodenext batch of emoji. Then in May, Unicode announced some of the draft candidates for its next emoji release in Q1 2019to include some of Appleproposed emoji, which featured a guide dog, an ear with a hearing aid and more. If you want to hear more about what goes into emoji approval, be sure to check out this interview with Jeremy Burge, vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.

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Back in August of 2016, Pinterest acquired Instapaper, the read-it-later bookmarking service originally built by Marco Arment.

Just shy of two years later, Instapaper is going back to being independent.

In a blog post published this afternoon, the team clarifies that a new company called &Instant Paper, Inc.& has been formed to oversee Instapaper, and that it&ll largely be made up of the same folks who&ve worked on it since ~2013.

Don&t expect much to change, for better or worse — at least, not immediately. The company is waiting three weeks before officially transferring ownership, in order to &give [its] users fair notice about the change of control with respect to their personal information.&

The team doesn&t outline the reasoning for splitting away, but it has many users hoping its newly regained independence means it can become GDPR-compliant sooner than later. Instapaper shut off its services in Europe back in May so they could &make changes in light of [GDPR]&; two months later, the service remains offline in the EU.

Instapaper confirmed this afternoon that GDPR-compliance is still a goal:

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Google Cloudnew region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today. This isn&t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but ita big step for Google, which now boasts five cloud regions in the United States. It was only three years ago that Google opened its second U.S. region and, while it was slow to expand its physical cloud footprint, the company now features 17 regions around the world.

When it first announced this new region, Google positioned it as the ideal region for the entertainment industry. And while thatsurely true, I&m sure we&ll see plenty of other companies use this new region, which features three availability zones, to augment their existing deploymentsin Googleother West Coast region in Oregon or as part of their overall global cloud strategy.

Google CloudLA region goes online

The new region is launching with all the core Google Cloud compute services, like App Engine, Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine, as well as all of Googlestandard database and file storage tools, including the recently launched NAS-likeCloud Filestore service. For businesses that have a physical presence close to L.A., Google also offers two dedicated interconnects to Equinixand CoreSitelocal LA1 data centers.

Itworth nothing that Microsoft, which has long favored a strategy of quickly launching as many regions as possible, already offered its users a region in Southern California. AWS doesn&t currently have a presence in the area, though, unlike Google, AWS does offer a region in Northern California.

Google CloudLA region goes online

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Missed yesterdayNintendo Switch deal on Amazon AU Here's your chanceMissed yesterdayNintendo Switch deal on Amazon AU Here's your chance

UPDATE: The lightning deal is 100% claimed, but if you sign up for the waitlist you could get lucky. 

Amazon Australia’s Prime Day sales have offered up some real tech treats for us over the last 24 hours, but for those chasing a cheap Nintendo Switch, the 'Lightning' deal that was on offer yesterday really lived up to its name – it only lasted 50 s

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Walmart: Ultimate Summer Savings with deals on TVs, computers, Smart Home devices, GoPro cameras and moreWalmart: Ultimate Summer Savings with deals on TVs, computers, Smart Home devices, GoPro cameras and more

As you well may know, today is a big shopping day. Not to be outdone, Walmart has gotten in on the action with what it's billing as its Ultimate Summer Savings, where its offering deals on hundreds of items ranging from electronics to clothing and home goods. And as the store has stressed, one doesn't need a membership to get any of these primo

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Surprise Uncharted fan film has Nathan Fillion playing DrakeSurprise Uncharted fan film has Nathan Fillion playing Drake

Ever since the release of the first Uncharted video game on PS3 in 2007, which saw the world introduced to the roguish adventurer Nathan Drake, fans have mostly agreed that the only actor worthy of filling the character's shoes in a live action adaptation would be Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle). 

Now, fans have finally gotten their wish with the

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