Hermione goes offshore, Sunrise sunsets, and women get more icons

After a searchable database of offshore holdings went online, the Spectator reported that Watson appeared as the beneficiary of a company based in the British Virgin Islands.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is shutting down Sunrise, a calendar-management app for smartphones with something of a cult following.

Four Google employees unveiled a proposal Tuesday at the Unicode Symposium to expand the range of professions depicted in emoji, the icons used in smartphones and messaging software that show a range of everyday people and objects, to include more types of working women, from surgeons to farmers and welders.

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