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apparently the word of the year doesn't have to be a word I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update it's time to bid farewell to language as we know it the word of the year is not a word at all for the first time ever the fine folks at oxford dictionaries society that the word of the year should be an emoji specifically it's the face with tears of joy used when you're crying laughing but before you weep for the future of language Oxford did say that this emoji best reflected the ethos mood and preoccupations of 2015 and according to some statistics it is the most used emoji in the world this year of course these cartoons are growing in popularity as more people get smart phones that use the icons and it's also picking up with the help of social media remember when Hillary Clinton tried to connect with young people by asking them to share their thoughts about the complex issue of student loan debt in three emojis or less dominos pizza outlets you order a pizza just by tweeting the emoji slice and you can even buy emoji keyboards for your desktop computer because apparently we need tools to emoji faster Facebook is testing out emoji reaction buttons that go beyond the thumbs up which let you mark a post with different faces or a heart for love and Twitter seems to also be moving in that direction a Twitter user noticed his appt had the ability to select from 12 emoji beyond the heart including the 100 sign and a party confetti horn this option was hidden inside of a developer build of Twitter's iPhone app when asked by the verge Twitter's comment about it was just one emoji response the monkey with hands over its mouth as our communication changes so does the way we listen to music pandora is evolving to become like other on-demand streaming apps where you can request the specific song you want and pandora announced it would buy up most of its rival our do for 75 million dollars and next year the plan is for Pandora to include a feature for on-demand listening similar to Spotify or Apple music meanwhile beats music is shutting down at the end of the month on November 30th it also was a paid on to man music service apple bought beats and it's encouraging users to migrate to the Apple music app which has now been around six months and it's also available on Android devices and we say goodbye to another music service forever zune yeah this week Microsoft shut down all zune services for any of you that still used the zune player for connecting online to download music from the marketplace or the zune music past subscription program which actually changed to the groove music service back in 2008 microsoft stop making zooms but now by killing the services the zune name shall no longer be spoken in the halls of microsoft but we shall never forget that's it for this tech news update and there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey