I read an interesting story this week that said that different people see the use of

emoji different ways. Like you could send an emoji to one person, send the same emoji to another

person, and the two of them will take different meanings from it.

Makes me wonder if I need to go back to typing things out instead of just sending people the middle finger

emoji. This is a bit about bots the spring survey of teens and I-things, and Apple's Enterprise Assault continues.

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If you get your tech news from other sources in addition to Mac-O-S-Can, you've no doubt read a lot about bots over the past few weeks.

If you don't know what they are, or if you've been meaning to find out, let me help you.

Actually let Recode help you.

A piece that site ran earlier this week explained,

a bot is software that is designed to automate the kinds of tasks

you would usually do on your own like making a dinner reservation adding an

appointment to your calendar or fetching and displaying information.

The increasingly common form of bots, chat bots, simulate conversation.

They often live inside messaging apps or are at least designed to look that way,

and it should feel like you're chatting back and forth as you would with a human.

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