
How to change your emoji's skin tone on iPhone or iPad
You can change your face and hand emoji to display the skin tone you prefer instead of using the skin color of the characters on The Simpsons! Here's how you do it!
You can change your face and hand emoji to display the skin tone you prefer instead of using the skin color of the characters on The Simpsons! Here's how you do it!
App Camp, a camp that empowers middle school-aged girls and transgender & gender non-conforming youth to pursue careers in tech, is looking to expand to three new cities. You can help out by donating!
Apple's Denise Young Smith, previously VP of human resources, has taken on a new role in the company as VP of Inclusion and Diversity.
Come iOS 10, you'll be able to get your hands on more than 100 new and updated emoji. With more gender options and some nifty new objects, Apple's updated emoji better reflect your real life.
Apple has released its diversity report for 2015, noting progress its made in more diverse hiring over the course of 2015. In particular, Apple hired 11,000 women, an increase of 65% over 2015.
Denise Young Smith, Apple's VP of Worldwide Human Resources, spoke at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference about the company's progress towards a more diverse workforce, and the importance of making changes.
"But most women aren't really interested in programming." When someone says that, I can relate. That's exactly how I felt about girls playing sports when I was 15. Title IX, the landmark 1972 U.S. civil rights law that mandated equal funding for both genders in educational programs — including athletics — was a hot topic during my high school years. At the time, the major sports for...
Tim Cook had met privately with civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson for an hour to discuss diversity and inclusion on Monday. The meeting occurred in the Bay Area while Jackson was in town for a workshop hosted by the Rainbow PUSH coalition at Intel's Santa Clara headquarters to discuss how technology companies could close the racial gap. According to a report on USA Today,...
A new proposal drafted by the Unicode Consortium would introduce more racial diversity into the popular emoji characters used in messages on smartphones. The proposal, edited by Google's Mark Davis and Apple's Peter Edberg, would bring skin tones, based on the Fitzpatrick scale for dermatology, to emoji characters in five hues ranging from a pale creme to a dark brown. To use the...
Citing that diversity would help Apple build better products, the Cupertino, California iPhone-maker announced that it will be awarding two $10,000 scholarships to minority students pursuing a technology education in universities. In addition to the financial award, the recipients would also be considered for Apple's internship program. The Product Integrity Inclusion and Diversity...