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For the advancing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can assure individuals adjoin sexual advance and harassment, and how it can help and abutment survivors.

A recent analysis found more than 150 instances of sexual advance involving dating apps. Approximately 10 percent complex users being akin with dates who had ahead been accused or bedevilled of sexual assault.

A recent Reddit post capacity the danger of using a accepted congenital tool in the iOS image alteration menu. The tool, frequently referred to as the highlighter (it’s absolutely a chisel-shaped marker, don’t @ me) is often used to cover acute advice in screenshots or photographs — such as credit card numbers or the abode on a drivers license.

A 17-year old Muslim girl on TikTok has been uploading now-viral makeup tutorials, but with a political twist. In a video shared by “@getmefamouspartthree,” Feroza Aziz acutely gives tips on how to amplify your lashes by cogent users to grab a set of lash curlers, but then directs admirers to use their phones to search for “China’s Muslim absorption camps” — this is in advertence to the detention of about 1 actor Uighur people in Xinjiang, China right now.

Tech5, annually hosted by TNW and Adyen, is back for the seventh time.

Despite huge advances in science over the past century, our compassionate of nature is still far from complete. Not only have scientists failed to find the Holy Grail of physics – accumulation the very large (general relativity) with the very small (quantum mechanics) – they still don’t know what the vast majority of the cosmos is made up of. The sought after Theory of Everything continues to elude us. And there are other outstanding puzzles, too, such as how alertness arises from mere matter.

An icon buried in the next abundance of iOS 13 suggests we might be accepting a abolitionist new bearing of AirPods. If the info is correct, they’ll have a new design and some new appearance to go along with them.

Welcome to TNW Basics, a accumulating of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff.

The studio arrangement experts at Sonarworks afresh launched an ebook series aimed at allowance musicians and engineers get the most of out their home studio. If you dabble in music assembly and/or recording, these free PDFs should be advised must-read material.