Emoji equality.

• Position: TECHNOLOGY - Brief article

Emojis 316 getting a makeover. After years of complaints that the popular messaging icons are all white, Apple recently announced plans to release 300 new emojis in six different skin colors. So far, though, the new icons have gotten mixed reviews. Some people are happy to finally see emojis that resemble them, but others have complained that the new default yellow-face icon (bottom row, left) stereotypes Asians. Apple says the default color is meant to be ethnically neutral, like the yellow smiley faces created in Japan in the 1990s--the...