Jackson Square Ventures (JSV), an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that takes its name from the neighborhood in San Francisco where it’s headquartered, has closed its third fund with…

Robotics is back! We are excited to announce that on March 3 next year TechCrunch will host its fourth annual TC Sessions: Robotics & AI at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall.…

Uber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of…

Ryan Conner is a corporate attorney at Atrium part of the General Counsel Group representing early-stage startups. The increase in activity in the pre-IPO secondary market means that founders, early…

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Shipping tech giant Pitney Bowes has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. The company said in a statement that its systems were hit by a “malware attack that encrypted information”…

Elinor Carucci was just waking up following major surgery when her husband Eran gently whispered, "We have to take the picture now." Before her hysterectomy, Carucci had convinced the hospital to let her document her own uterus post-op. But time was tight. The surgeon rushed to her bedside with a plastic bucket, lifted out the…

This week, Californians got two helpings of bad news, as Pacific Gas & Electric shut off the power for some residents to try and cut down on wildfires, even as a blaze broke out and displaced thousands in the San Fernando Valley. (The electricity kept flowing to Silicon Valley's tech companies, though.) Meanwhile, it was…

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to something you love. The British company Dyson, for example, disbanded its 500-person automotive business this week, and its plans to build an out-of-the-box electric car. Founder and CEO James Dyson explained that the landscape around electric vehicles has changed since the project began four years ago. Other electric…

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same.But there is a growing community of mathematicians who regard the equal sign as math’s original error. They see it as a veneer that hides important complexities in the way quantities are…