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Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K

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by on December 2, 2018 at 8:58 am
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Sex robots are everywhere at the moment (not literally – you won’t find them marching down the street just yet), but figuratively, as a growing number of ‘robot brothels’ divide public opinion as they feel out the market in the US and Canada. But if a robot hasn’t ‘had sex’ yet, does that make it a virgin? A crowdfunding campaign to open the world’s first consent-focused sex brothel launched by Abyss Creations employee Unicole Unicron last month would argue that it does indeed. With a $155,000 funding target to be reached within the next nine days (it’s languishing at less than $3,000 currently, so it definitely hasn’t…

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9 tips to edit and post photos on Instagram like a pro

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by on December 1, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Each day, there are millions of photos shared by Instagram users. You definitely don’t want your followers to miss your photos in the midst of all these other posts. So, what will attract users to your posts? A perfect picture. But what is a perfect picture? The perfect picture should have good composition, lighting, colors, and tones. You need to use the right intensity of filters and effects to get the desired picture. Not a professional photographers or photo editing expert? Feel like you have no idea how or where to start editing or taking perfect pictures? You don’t have…

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What GoDaddy is doing wrong about privacy — here’s what it should do

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by on December 1, 2018 at 2:30 pm
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“GoDaddy cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data only as it might be needed for us to deliver to you our world-class products, services, websites, and mobile applications.” The above is a direct quote from GoDaddy’s privacy policy, and a fair statement to make in terms of the use of your personal data. That is, until you register a domain with the company. Wherever it is you’re situated, GoDaddy asks for users to pay for privacy protection. With privacy being a fundamental right to us all, it seems distasteful that a large domain registrar…

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