No, seriously. What is up with the yellow skin emoji?

Apple introduces new "racially diverse" emoji, including a gross shade of yellow.


In a new beta version of its operating system, Apple recently revealed a new set of "racial diverse" emoji, featuring faces in a variety of skin tones. So I join the chorus and ask: what is up with that awful sickly shade of yellow? Is that supposed to be an Asian face? Because those faces do not look healthy.

These are Apple's new, diverse emoji

There's been a demand for more inclusive emoji that reflects the diversity of the world's skin tones. Or at least some options other than the limited set of lily-white icons currently featured in iOS. So I applaud the effort.

But dude. That yellow is gross.

Ex-Apple employee Sam Sung sells business card for charity

Sam Sung's eBay auction raises $2,653 for The Children's Wish Foundation



Sung. Sam Sung. You've probably seen the business card of the former Apple employee, who happens to bear the name of Apple's biggest rival. Funny. While the image went viral in 2012, Mr. Sung recent put his notoriety to good use by auctioning off the now-infamous card and raising more than $2,500 for charity.

Ex-Apple worker Sam Sung's irony nets $2,653 (for charity)

Sung, a former employee at an Apple store in Vancouver, auctioned off his business card on eBay and raised $2,653 ($2,907 in Canadian currency) to help benefit The Children's Wish Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with serious illnesses.

Woman tased in Apple Store incident

What the hell. In New Hampshire, police used a taser on a woman while trying to arrest her at a mall, in an altercation that apparently went down because she wanted to purchase more than two iPhones: Language barrier may be to blame for Nashua Taser incident.

Xiaojie Li was arrested for allegedly trespassing at the Apple Store at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua. She was trying to buy iPhones for relatives in China, but employees limited her to just two. However, Li claims that she saw other customers buying more than two phones.

Employees asked her to leave, and even requested a no-trespass order on her. When she returned to the store a few days later, they called the cops on her. And that's when the tasing began: