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Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologises for flawed beer, burger emoji, displays new versions

Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologises for flawed beer, burger emoji, displays new versions

Sundar Pichai

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The Google in its annual developer conference announces upcoming products or plans and also reviews progress that the tech giant has made since the last event

Google's annual developer conference kicked off on Tuesday in California starting with CEO Sundar Pichai apologising for the flawed designs of the burger and beer emoji on Android.

Pichai said: "Towards the end of last year it came to my attention that we had a major bug in one of our core products. It turns out, we got the cheese wrong in our burger emoji."

There was a huge debate over the burger emoji on social media last year which started with author Thomas Baakdel stating the wrong placement of the cheese on the burger.

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The tweet went viral and Pichai responded with a good humour, tweeting that Google would "drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday."

After the emoji was fixed, a similar issue happened with the beer emoji and caught everyone's attention. The flaw: The beer emoji was a half-full mug with foam coming out of the top.

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While addressing the crowd at the conference Pichai said: "I don't even want to tell you the explanation the team gave me as to why the foam is floating above the beer, but we restored the natural laws of physics."

With the burger and beer mug fixed, Pichai went on to address matters that extended beyond the internet's interest in emoji accuracy.

The Google in its annual developer conference announces upcoming products or plans and also reviews progress that the tech giant has made since the last event.