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Elvie’s sleek tech for new mothers is breaking taboos in women’s health

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by on July 17, 2019 at 1:41 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Five years ago, global funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now the femtech industry is set to see a huge increase with more than $400 million funneling in — the largest amount of funding the industry has ever received. This is long overdue. historically, femtech hasn’t received much venture capital funding . This shouldn’t come as a surprise since a staggering 92 percent of partners at the biggest VC firms in America are men. But Elvie, a London-based, female-first innovation company specializing in tech for new mums, is improving women’s lives through smart technology including a breast pump…

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Here are the Senate’s sickest burns dished out to Facebook’s Libra

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by on July 17, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Facebook‘s digital currency, Libra, has been causing a bit of a ruckus lately. Since its plans became public a few weeks ago, headlines have largely been awash with why it’s probably a bad idea. Nations all over the globe started to wake up to the reality of a currency controlled by the data hoarding Goliath that is Facebook. A number of countries including India and the US already told the social media giant to hold its horses before plowing on with its plans for global domination Libra. The big F faced one of its biggest hurdles last night, when Facebook‘s…

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How OnePlus uses robotic hands, mannequin heads, and a tiny carnival ride to test its phone cameras

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by on July 17, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


As tech writers, we get to play with a lot of phones. But, it’s not often that we get to peek behind the curtain to see how engineers are working on the product. That’s why I was pretty excited when OnePlus invited us to visit its camera lab in Taiwan. This testing lab, which is the center of OnePlus’ camera development, was established in 2014 under Simon Liu, who heads the company‘s imaging team now. Carl Pei, OnePlus’ co-founder, told a bunch of reporters at a briefing in Taiwan the company‘s philosophy behind its camera is to take ‘natural’ photos…

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God forgive us, we made cocktails using Soylent

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by on July 17, 2019 at 11:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


The idea behind Soylent is simple: why waste time cooking when you can replace meals with a powdered drink? “Don’t be lame,” the concept seemed to say, “it’s the future now — food’s dumb.” Generally, this is all well and good(-ish), but it leaves out one vital ingredient of life: getting shitfaced. It’s terrible oversight, right? A borderline unforgivable mistake. Imagine it — waking up on Sunday without a thumping headache, dry mouth, and a deep, endless sense of shame. It hardly bears thinking about. So, if Soylent is meant to be the nutrition of those with no time —…

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