Google is making it easier to access emoji as part of a few changes to Meet on iOS and Android. Instead of hiding the emoji ...

Shelby also oversees Tech Tips coverage ... to understand what someone means in a message, and when you throw emoji in the mix things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy ...

But my problem with tech bros using the sparkles emoji is more than a weary aesthetic. It's that the companies have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the sparkles emoji actually means.