Swiftkey -- the keyboard app maker acquired by Microsoft earlier this year for $250 million -- just launched an emoji-predicting keyboard app dubbed Swiftmoji. “Emoji predictions are crowdsourced, based on Swiftkey’s keyboard usage data, but will also draw on each user’s own emoji preferences over time,” TechCrunch reports. “Swiftmoji offers emoji suggestions based on what the user has just typed.”

Branching out beyond language learning, mobile education app Duolingo just launched Tinycards for iOS -- its first app that can be used for learning virtually anything that involves memorization. “At its core, Tinycards is a flashcards app that uses the same spaced repetition technique as similar apps, but in the backend, it also uses the same algorithms as the Duolingo app to adapt to every learner’s individual progress.”

Pokémon Go is scheduled to launch in Japan on Wednesday, reports TechCrunch. “Pokémon Go is currently available in over 30 countries, including the U.S., Canada and much of Europe, but Japan has so far been left off the list,” it notes. “That’s upset and frustrated a lot of true Pokémon addicts.”

For the third time in eight months, a Brazilian judge ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to WhatsApp. “The decision … in the southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro applies to Brazil's five wireless carriers,” Reuters reports. “The reason for the order was not known due to legal secrecy in an ongoing case, and will only be lifted once Facebook surrenders data.”

3D-mapping startup Civil Maps just announces a $6.6 million investment round led by Motus Ventures, with participation from Ford, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Wicklow Capital, and StartX Stanford. “Founded out of California in 2014, Civil Maps uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) and local vehicle-based processing to convert data obtained from a car’s sensors into ‘meaningful map information’ for use in autonomous vehicles,” Venture Beat reports.

GlaxoSmithKline is officially the first drugmaker to use Apple’s ResearchKit health system to conduct clinical research. To study rheumatoid arthritis, “Glaxo wants to record the mobility of 300 participants over three months and will also ask the patients to input both physical and emotional symptoms, such as pain and mood,” Bloomberg reports. “The success of the study could help determine the pharmaceutical industry’s future appetite for using Apple’s products to conduct research.”

For a year, T-Mobile is giving customers unlimited data to Pokémon Go, the carrier’s CEO John Legere announced this week. “Legere had earlier tweeted that the number of active Pokemon players on T-Mobile’s network had doubled in less than a week and their data usage had quadrupled,” Fortune notes.

At least for now, Apple is not in the business of creating TV shows, according to it’s SVP Eddy Cue. “If we see it being complementary to the things we're doing at Apple Music or if we see it being something that's innovative on our platform, we may help them and guide them and make suggestions,” Cue tells The Hollywood Reporter. “But we're not trying to compete with Netflix or compete with Comcast.”

Unity Technologies just raised $181 million in new funding, which values the company at $1.5 billion. “Unity makes a type of software known as a game engine, a suite of tools that help people create video games,” Bloomberg reports. “Almost one-third of the top 1,000 mobile grossing games have been built using Unity [including] Pokémon Go.”

Overseas, Google is making some major improvements to its Project Fi its wireless service. “Starting today Fi customers will have access to faster data speeds worldwide, thanks in part to help from Google’s partnership with European carrier Three,” 9To5Google reports. “Previously Fi customers only had access to 2G speeds when traveling outside of the United States.”