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Paper-rich startup employees look for ‘pre-wealth’ help to lock down stock options

For Silicon Valley’s potential startup millionaires, compensation packages staked on future promises of wealth are where the action is, but what happens when these employees get laid off or have

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GaN chargers are still worth getting excited about

Listen. Chargers aren’t sexy. You know it. I know. Charger companies know it, regardless of what they tell you in their pitch deck. Honestly, you’d be hard-pressed to think of too many electronic acce

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Reading Ted Chiang’s ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’

What would we do if we could visit our own pasts or futures? Are we more likely to change our timelines, or will our timelines actually project themselves back on to us more forcefully?This is the fir

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Daily Crunch: Visa makes a $5.3 billion acquisition

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption fails

Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Me

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Announcing the Agenda for Robotics & AI – March 3 at UC Berkeley

We’re bringing TC Sessions: Robotics + AI back to UC Berkeley on March 3, and we’re excited to announce our jam-packed agenda. For months we’ve been recruiting speakers from the ranks of the most inno

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Google wants to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years

Google today announced its plans to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within the next two years. The fact that Google will drop support for these cookies, which are typically used t

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Instacart upgrades its pickup service with new features, adds alcohol pickup option

Instacart announced today a series of new features for its Pickup service, as well as the appointment of a new General Manager, Sarah Mastrorocco, to lead the Instacart Pickup product and team. The gr

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Microsoft ends free Windows 7 security updates

If you're still using Microsoft's Windows 7, your computer might be at risk. Microsoft will stop providing free security updates for the system starting January 14, meaning computers using it will

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Tehran Dismisses Trump's 'Support' Tweet, Says Iranians Will Remember He Killed Soleimani

It comes after US President Trump published a tweet of support for Iranian protesters in the Persian language. On Sunday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said tha

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Transforming #MeToo into the industry’s first investor clause

“Keep your head high and give them hell.”My grandma, Opal Thompson, once wrote that to me in a letter, like the dyed-in-the-wool, strong Texan woman she was. It is now tattooed on my forearm for all t

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Wear your helmet, concludes new study showing electronic scooter injuries have nearly tripled in the last four years

Taking a ride on an electronic scooter soon? Wear your helmet! According to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery, not wearing headgear or taking other precautions while riding is increasingly send

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Grab ‘em quick: More tickets released for 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize

You better move fast if you want to party with us and 1,000 of your closest startup entrepreneur and investor friends. We just released a fresh round of tickets to our 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galva

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. His unswerving conviction that “space must be affordable” led him to disrupt

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Equity Monday: Away’s CEO plans comeback while SaaS valuations rise and epiFI raises

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listene

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Chiefs rally from 24-0 hole to beat Texans 51-31 in playoffs

Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass in the NFL playoff game against the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, January

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Calling all photographers for Chinese New Year photo competition

Give me five! Photo taken in Lisbon, Portugal, Feb 11, 2018. [Photo by Liu Xiaolan] The Sharing China - Happy Chinese New Year Contest 2020 is calling for entries from all over the world! Regar