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This Week’s Cartoons: September 23-27, 2019

Pictographs walked so emojis could run.
Cartoon of mom and child walking to mailbox. Mom says Before texting we had to write letters by hand and before emojis...

Friday, September 27, 2019. By Avi Steinberg, with cartooncollections.com. A lingua franca for the digital age: Here’s the WIRED Guide to Emojis.

Cartoon about BlackBerry. An enormous BlackBerry phone in the place of a tombstone.

Thursday, September 26, 2019. By Lars Kenseth, with cartooncollections.com. WIRED charts BlackBerry’s rise and fall in 10 phones.

Cartoon about cryptocookies. Man on laptop says I don't care how much I own there's still something unsatisfying about...

Wednesday, September 25, 2019. By Drew Dernavich, with cartooncollections.com. And if you hate any sort of digital cookie, consider switching to a privacy browser.

Cartoon of couple star gazing. Man says It's so beautiful. Almost makes you forget that at any moment a gamma ray burst...

Tuesday, September 24, 2019. By Lars Kenseth, with cartooncollections.com. The internet’s largest astronomical data trove makes it so anyone can hunt for new cosmic phenomena, from gamma ray bursts to killer asteroids.

Cartoon about VR. Man in headset says It's like I'm actually walking my dog. His real dog sits next to him frowning.

Monday, September 23, 2019. By Ellis Rosen, with cartooncollections.com. Everything you ever wanted to know about headsets, Oculus, Magic Leap, and simulator sickness—it’s the WIRED Guide to virtual reality.

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