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Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, sets IPO range at $15 to $17/share, will raise $125M at a valuation of $658M at mid-point (NASDAQ.com)

NASDAQ.com: Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, sets IPO range at $15 to $17/share, will raise $125M at a valuation of $658M at mid-point  —  Phreesia, which provides a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, sets IPO range

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Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location data even when permission was denied; Google says it will address the issue in Android Q later this year (Alfred Ng/CNET)

Alfred Ng / CNET: Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location data even when permission was denied; Google says it will address the issue in Android Q later this year  —  Permissions on Android apps are intended to be gatekeepers for how much data your device gives up. Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location

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Manufacturing in China Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at noon Pacific for the Manufacturing in China Hack Chat with Jesse Vincent! It started out where many great stories start: as a procrastination project. Open source developer Jesse Vincent decided that messing around with a new keyboard design was a better thing to spend time on than whatever he was

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Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev's other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble (Angel Au-Yeung/Forbes)

Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev’s other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble  —  Even for an afternoon business meeting, Andrey Andreev, the world’s top online dating tycoon, dresses like he’s headed to a nightclub … Sources describe a

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Black Mirror’s ‘Striking Vipers’ episode is a surprisingly refreshing depiction of future sex

This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between sex and technology in a non-explicit, as close to a ‘safe for work’ way as possible – including app reviews, adult VR info, sextech devices, privacy, security issues, and much more. It was founded by ex-TNW European Editor Ben Woods,

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Sony Xperia 1 review: the 6.5" 21:9 4K screen is big enough for content and narrow enough to hold comfortably but is too dim, and the phone is too expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Sony Xperia 1 review: the 6.5″ 21:9 4K screen is big enough for content and narrow enough to hold comfortably but is too dim, and the phone is too expensive  —  Sony’s best phone yet still isn’t worth the price  —  You can immediately see what Sony is going for

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ICE and the FBI are using facial recognition on driver’s license databases around the US

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are widely using facial recognition tools on state driver’s license databases around the country, according to newly released documents. Searches even for low-level crimes In documents from multiple states released today, Georgetown Law reveals how officials regularly turn to local DMVs for facial recognition searches.

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15Five, which builds software and services to facilitate employee self-evaluations, raises $30.7M Series B, bringing its total raised to $42.6M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: 15Five, which builds software and services to facilitate employee self-evaluations, raises $30.7M Series B, bringing its total raised to $42.6M  —  Technology has been used to improve many of the processes that we use to get work done.  But today, a startup has raised funding to build tech to improve us,

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