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• Could artificial-womb technology be a tool for women’s liberation?

  11-01-2020 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  While some women experience pregnancy and childbirth as joyful, natural and fulfilling, others find themselves recoiling in horror at the physical demands of carrying and sustaining a child in their womb, and even more so at the potential brutality of giving birth. Some might view the blood, sweat and tears as a necessary and unavoidable part of life. Others, such as the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, writing in her book The Dialectic of Sex (1970), assume a less forgiving view of the pr
  
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• How to hide your Instagram Stories from strangers

  11-01-2020 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as Instagram Stories encourages us to overshare pretty much every detail of our lives, you might want to consider taking more control of who can actually see your life in snippets. A few months ago, Instagram introduced a new feature that highlights Stories by location or hashtag — meaning people who don’t follow you can stumble upon your
  
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• This $12 Photoshop course will take you from complete newbie to savvy pro

  11-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  While it may take a little more work than point-and-click, Photoshop doesn’t have to illicit terror. The Photoshop Master: From Beginning to Photoshop Pro training, now $11.99 (over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), will hand-hold new users as they head down the path toward photo editing jedi.
  
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• Clip Studio DEBUT is a must for digital artists. Get it, plus loads of assets, for $25

  11-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Clip Studio DEBUT has carved out a niche as a professional-grade graphic art program made for and trusted by true artists. You can give its abilities a true test with The Creativity Bundle ft. Clip Studio DEBUT, available for only $25, 86 percent off, right now from TNW Deals.
  
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• This WhatsApp script texts your parents every morning so you don’t have to

  11-01-2020 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In our busy work lives, we often forget to WhatsApp our loved ones. Looking at how regular my parents are messaging me with inspirational quotes and health tips first thing in the morning, it was time to reciprocate. In this tutorial, we will write a simple Python script to send a WhatsApp message every morning. Twilio is the Python package we will use. To run it every day at a certain time, we’ll put our code on the AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud. So, let’s get started! One soluti
  
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• Report: Skype audio recordings were reviewed in China with ‘no security’

  11-01-2020 00:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the latest in a sadly lengthy series of companies misappropriating their capacity to listen to you, a new report reveals a Skype transcription program in China ran with little oversight or security protecting recordings of Skype customers. The company says these issues have been addressed, but it’s still a very unflattering look at its practices. The Guardian reports that a project to grade the translation software within Skype and Cortana ran for years in Beijing. An anonymous worker,
  
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