Unveiled on June 16, version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard—a worldwide computing industry specification for the encoding and representation of various kinds of text—contains 2,834 new characters, ...

The Unicode Consortium website lists 12 full members – which all get a vote – including big players in tech: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Adobe.

The latest Unicode update, Unicode 11.0, includes the following science-themed emoji: lab coat, goggles, test tube, petri dish, DNA, microbe, compass, abacus, and fire extinguisher.

Unix: I guess this is the grandaddy of computer operating systems (see O - Do you speak my language: O is for Object, Open Source, Operating System).