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Male and female ginger-haired emoji with a range of skin tones are out as part of a set of 157 new characters launched by the Unicode Consortium.

The emoji 11.0 set will roll out to social media platforms as well as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung smartphone users worldwide over the coming months.

The new characters join 2,666 other emoji already offered by the Consortium, though it may take some

time before smartphone fi rms to add them to their software.

The upgrade sports a range of new hairstyles, including

curly-hair, white-hair and baldness. Also included are hot and cold faces, as well as party, woozy and plead-ing faces.

The set features male and female superheros and supervillains, as well as emoji for activities such as softball, frisbee, sewing, chess and lacrosse. Animals lovers will enjoy the new llama*, raccoon, lobster, hippopotamus, parrot and kangaroo emoji.

The update also includes new skin tone options for the leg and foot emoji, as well as science-focused characters like a test-tube, lab coat and petri dish*. (SD-Agencies)

Redhead people fi nally have their own emoji 红发人士将拥有专属emoji表情

Apple is expected to fi nally release its wireless charging accessory AirPower in Sep-tember, likely alongside its new iPhone models, Bloom-berg reported, citing sources close to the development.

Apple has struggled to make the charging mat because it’s supposed to charge three different prod-ucts at once — an iPhone, an Apple Watch and its wireless AirPods headphones.

Engineers have also been working to make sure the product doesn’t overheat.

They’ve also been trying to navigate challenges associated with AirPower’s complex circuitry*, which they hope will allow the user

to charge a device no matter where you place a device on the pad.

To charge multiple devices at once, the mat has to be fi tted with several charging components, each of which are different sizes and need to overlap across the mat — a task that has proven diffi cult.

Apple has also been work-ing to resolve various bugs* associated with AirPower’s fi rmware.

Apple has introduced wire-less charging on a range of products, including the Air-Pods, Apple Watch and the iPhone. Ultimately, designers at the company want to remove most of the external ports and buttons on the iPhone, includ-ing the charger.

The fi rm considered removing the current charg-ing system on the iPhone X, but they decided against it, as wireless charging is still slower than traditional charging. It would also raise the price of the already expensive iPhone X, which starts at US$999.

(SD-Agencies)

Apple to launch charging mat in September苹果无线充电座9月上市

California-based startup* Creator has built a machine that can cook patties, toast buns, squirt on the sauce and assemble your burger in just fi ve minutes.

It took eight years to develop, but the burger robot is almost ready to make its big debut at the company’s fi rst storefront in San Francisco, according to TechCrunch. Creator expects the storefront to open to the public in September.

In all, the machine, which Creator refers to as a “culi-nary instrument,” contains 20 computers, 350 sensors and 50 actuators*. A series of

vertical* tubes contain stacks of pickles, cheese, tomatoes and onions, among other things. The contraption* is in the center of the restaurant and replaces the traditional counter.

Meat is ground to order for every customer and is sourced from “high-end ingredients*,” according to Bloomberg.

First, the machine slices and toasts the bun, then adds the toppings, season-ings and sauces, and then cooks the patties. A series of paddles in the machine push the burger through the contraption. The burger isn’t

touched by human hands until an employee gives it to a customer.

And while the item is made by a high-tech machine and includes high-end ingre-dients, it still only costs US$6.

Creator founder Alex Var-dakostas said he believes the machine can cook burgers and slice vegetables more effi ciently than a human can.

It also reduces the chance that the food will get con-taminated*. For example, since they’re not assembled by a human, food won’t risk being contaminated by a worker who has a cold.

Few human employees can be spotted at the storefront, aside from the occasional one replacing ingredients.

Additionally, the fi rm has hired engineers, designers and roboticists from Apple, NASA, Tesla and Disney.

Creator’s robotic burger machine follows similar cre-ations from other startups like Miso Robotics.

Miso Robotics debuted its Flippy burger bot at a res-taurant in California earlier this year, but was ultimately forced to put the machine on hiatus* after it couldn’t work fast enough to meet demand. (SD-Agencies)

Robot burger restaurant set to open in San Francisco

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