"This is the first step in a long journey to return information to the participants."

What's happening: Roughly 188,000 people have enrolled and completed the first protocol for the program, which began in May 2018 and will run for at least 10 years, Dishman says.

• More than half of the current participants come from historically marginalized racial and ethnic backgrounds, Dishman says.
• But they continue to actively recruit new participants via community partners, he says, with the ultimate goal of sequencing the genomes of 1 million participants.
• Underrepresented groups "have been left behind by science, and therefore [some of] the cures" that are found, he says. "It can be harmful not to have science for everyone in your country."

Details: One of the reasons All of Us selected Color is that they already have the technology that can scale up relatively quickly, in hopes of sharing results and offering genetic counseling by early 2020, Dishman says.

• Color will offer educational materials and counseling in different languages, so participants can speak with their doctors on individual health care risks and treatment plans.

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• Other new emoji offer more options to represent various people with disabilities and their lives, including prosthetic limbs, service dogs and electric wheelchairs.
• Also new to the standard emoji palette: icons for garlic, waffles and otters.

Why it matters: However you feel about emoji, they are here to stay and should better represent our diverse population.

• Both Apple and Google are using World Emoji Day to show off dozens of new emoji they plan to introduce with the next versions of iOS and Android.

By the numbers: Adobe today released its 2019 survey on emoji usage. Among its findings...

• The three most used emoji are a grin, heart and kiss, with love, happiness and sadness among the top emotions users aim to express through emoji.
• More than 90% of emoji users say that among the reasons they do so is to either lighten the mood of a conversation or to show support.
• Nearly two-thirds of emoji users said they are more comfortable expressing their emotions through emoji than a phone call. That's even more true for Gen Z respondents, of whom 83% prefer sending emoji to picking up the phone.
• Even at work, survey respondents said emoji make communication more likable, sincere and, surprisingly, credible.

Go deeper: Unicode Consortium approves interracial couple emojis