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Windows 10 Tip: Emoji 12 🎉✨🎊 Editor’s note: We’re back with the summer batch of weekly Windows 10 tips posts, which highlight some of the many helpful features that come with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make your daily life easier with a streamlined update process, as well as clean and simple experiences for your desktop.  In early February, Unicode finalized the set of emoji to be included with Emoji 12.0. With the May build, when you press WIN+(period) or WIN+(semicolon), all of these emoji now have keywords linked to them to make them more searchable, so you can try it once you install the build. Keywords include otter, sloth, waffle, ballet shoes and more.  The new emoji’s expansion into the animal kingdom also includes orangutans and flamingos. Foodies can now pop in 🧈 (butter), 🧄 (garlic), 🧅 (onion),  (falafel), 🧇 (waffles) and 🧊 (ice cube). (The newest images won’t appear in this post if you don’t yet have the update.) There are a total of 59 new emoji and [ more… ]

ADLaM: Find out how a new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future ADLaM creators Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry in Portland, Oregon. When they were 10 and 14, brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry set out to invent an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde, which had been spoken by millions of people for centuries but never had its own writing system. While their friends were out playing in the neighborhood, Ibrahima, the older brother, and Abdoulaye would shut themselves in their room in the family’s house in Nzérékoré, Guinea, close their eyes and draw shapes on paper. When one of them called stop they’d open their eyes, choose the shapes they liked and decide what sound of the language they matched best. Before long, they’d created a writing system that eventually became known as ADLaM. The brothers [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18945 Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18945 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. If you are one of the few Insiders who accidentally received Build 18947 earlier this week, see this forum post where we recommend you rollback to the previous build and then update to today’s build to be on the best path forward. IMPORTANT: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, these builds may contain bugs that might be painful for some. If you take this flight, you won’t be able to switch Slow or Release Preview rings without doing a clean-install on your PC. If you want a complete look at what build is in which Insider ring, head on over to Flight Hub. You can also check out the rest [ more… ]