Hello and welcome to WIRED's post-Comic-Con edition of The Monitor, our pop-culture news roundup. Believe it or not, some things happened in the world of entertainment outside of the mouth…

Earlier this month, TechCrunch held its annual Mobility Sessions event down in San Jose, where leading mobility-focused auto companies, startups, executives and thought leaders joined us to discuss all things autonomous vehicle technology, micromobility and e…

Microsoft today published three data sharing agreements that it hopes can function as a basis for other organizations who want to create similar documents. In today’s announcement, Erich Anderson, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Microsoft, a…

Since the launch of its first electric scooter in 2015, Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke has frequently been asked when the startup is going to expand beyond Taiwan. In its home country, Gogoros two-wheel vehicles, with their distinctive swappable batter…

Startups looking to expand the reach of financial services continue to receive a nod from investors. Zeta, a fintech firm that runs a full stack neo-banking platform and offers enterprise payments solutions, said today its valuation reached $300 million in it…

Last call, startuppers! TechCrunch’s Silicon Valley summer soiree a.k.a. the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party is nearly sold out. If you want to join the brightest members of the startup community on July 25 and celebrate your intrepid entrepreneurial spir…

Thumbtack just closed a new funding round of $150 million. Sequoia is leading the round, and the company is now valued at $1.7 billion. TechCrunchs Kate Clark previously reported that the startup was raising again, but that it was a tough process. In a candi…

Climate change has thrown our beautifully balanced planet into chaos. As oceans and forests transform and ecosystems go into shock, perhaps a million species teeter on the edge of extinction. But there may still be hope for these organisms. Some will change t…

Up to 750,000 military bunkers once dotted Albania, a Balkan country in southeast Europe of just 11,100 square miles. They were put there by communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled for 40 years following World War II, believing his enemies might attack at a…

Huawei this week cut 600 positions from its Futurewei Technologies U.S. research arm, which operates out of Silicon Valley, Chicago, Washington State and Dallas. The move, which represents 70 percent of the divisions 850 roles, follows the hardware giants bla…