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• How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime

  25-01-2020 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every human society. Its most basic sense concerns the public presentation and perception of the self. Someone who has face possesses something of positive social value that arises from social approval of a person’s status, action or state of being; someone who loses face has suffered a loss in social value concerning her status, behavior or state of being. In addit
  
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• It’s 2020 and we still have a data privacy problem

  25-01-2020 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  There are only a few $100 billion dollar industries out there — yet Facebook and Google sell personal data to advertisers for more than this amount on an annual basis. When the tech giants exploit consumers’ personal data for revenue gain, this data often gets sold and used without any regard to the individual. Europe and California have introduced regulations to protect individual consumer data, attempting to fundamentally change the universal perspective on consumer privacy rights
  
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• Vine’s successor Byte is here to take on TikTok

  25-01-2020 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Remember Vine? It’s much-awaited successor, Byte, is finally here. The app, developed by one of the Vine’s co-founders, Dom Hofmann, who has been working on the app for years, quietly announced the release on Twitter last night.  In 2018, Hofmann had announced he’s going to release the app in Spring 2019. While he certainly missed that target, the app is finally here. Byte is available for both iOS and Android, but not for all countries. The app retains the idea of c
  
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• For under $40, learn to use Adobe Illustrator like a graphic design pro

  25-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  As the leader in basically all digital media software, Adobe’s Illustrator remains the gold standard for vector graphic creation and editing. And with The 2020 Adobe Illustrator CC Master Class Bundle ($39.99, 85 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll find out how to get every last ounce of utility out of this game-changing app.
  
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• Here’s your chance to score a brand-new Apple iPad for under $240

  25-01-2020 13:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Step back a couple generations and pick up a still ultra-powerful, brand new Apple iPad Mini 3 at more than half off its retail price, only $239.99 right now with this limited time offer.
  
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• An ancient, dying galaxy could help astronomers learn more about the Milky Way

  25-01-2020 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The most distant dying galaxy known to astronomers contains nearly one trillion stars, making this family of stars is significantly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. Analysis of the core of this galaxy shows this object started to form 12 billion years ago — just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Like humans, galaxies are born, live out their lives, and fall into silence. The first galaxies formed just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, as the gravitational pull of
  
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• Use Chrome’s picture-in-picture mode to watch videos while browsing other tabs

  25-01-2020 00:58 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. We all know the struggle. You’re watching a show, or a video, but you also really want to get work done or do some browsing, so you flip to other Chrome tabs. You’ll be able to hear your video, but not see it. It’s a compromise we’ve all made from time to time — but you don’t have to make it. Chrome actually has a buil
  
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