Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium--a nonprofit made up of member companies including Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and more--announced a new version of the Unicode Standard that would bring more than 250 new emoji to people's devices in the near future. Included in the list of new emoji are a golfer, a racing motorcycle, a beach with an umbrella, and a derelict house building. Why were these emoji chosen, and not others?
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