Apple Honouring Leonard Nimoy With Spock Emoji

If, like us, you’ve spent countless hours signing off text messages with the Vulcan platitude “Live Long and Prosper”, then we have some great news for you.

Apple is reportedly adding a new “Spock” emoji featuring the famous ‘Star Trek’ hand salute when it next updates its operating systems on mobile and desktop.

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This means you’ll soon be able to sign off your messages with the simple, parted fingers hand symbol.

Tech blog Quartz says, “The Unicode Consortium—the group that oversees the coding standard for text on computers—approved the Spock sign as part of the last batch of new characters it added in 2014.”

Quartz confirmed that they’d found the Spock symbol in the recent OS X beta code that Apple publicly released, but was waiting for official confirmation from the tech firm as to whether it would be added to the emoji keyboard.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for playing Spock in ‘Star Trek’ since the 1960s, sadly passed away in February. He invented the famous salute by adapting a gesture used in Orthodox Judaism and has been associated with it ever since.

If this report is to be believed, Apple’s plan will ensure Nimoy’s memory will live long and prosper in the memory for many years to come.

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