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    XYZ Robotics raises $17M for its pick-and-place logistics robots – TechCrunch

    COVID-19 is proving to be a massive driver for robotics investments — and for good reason. Robots don’t call in sick, and they’re far...

    Can You Get a Flu Shot Now? Yes, and Doctors Say You Should

    How is the vaccine different this year?As always, this year’s shot was updated to include the influenza variants that are predicted to circulate in...

    Porsche experiments with subscription pricing, expands to Los Angeles – TechCrunch

    Porsche is rolling out a less expensive subscription plan in four U.S. cities as the German automaker experiments with different pricing and products...

    Instacart workers are demanding disaster relief amid CA wildfires – TechCrunch

    Gig Workers Collective, a gig worker-activist group led by Instacart shoppers, is asking Instacart to provide disaster relief to workers impacted by natural...

    Investment tech won’t solve systemic wealth gaps, but it’s a good start – TechCrunch

    Dean Sterrett Contributor Dean Sterrett is the co-founder, COO and head of product at LEX Markets, a commercial real estate securities marketplace for institutional and traditional...

    Waymo’s Boris Sofman and TuSimple’s Xiaodi Hou to join us at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    One of the areas of autonomous driving technology with the most potential to have a near-term and dramatic impact remains trucking: There’s a growing...

    As DevOps takes off, site reliability engineers are flying high – TechCrunch

    Jason Kong is an Investor at IVP, where he focuses on identifying and evaluating later-stage enterprise and consumer technology investments. Cack Wilhelm is a partner...

    How to establish a startup and draw up your first contract – TechCrunch

    Founders are encouraged, incentivized and pressured to begin transacting with customers as quickly as possible to drive growth and revenue. But making legal mistakes...

    Turing raises $14M to help source, vet, place and manage remote developers in tech jobs – TechCrunch

    The emergence, and now seemingly extended presence, of the novel coronavirus health pandemic has made remote working into a pretty standard part of office...

    Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization – TechCrunch

    Facebook is moving further away from the Oculus brand. The company says it is changing the name of their augmented reality and virtual reality...

    Uber’s former security chief charged, FBI’s ‘vishing’ warning – TechCrunch

    A lot happened in cybersecurity over the past week. The University of Utah paid almost half a million dollars to stop hackers from leaking sensitive...

    72-hour roll back to early bird pricing on Disrupt 2020 passes – TechCrunch

    In a nod to the show Parks and Recreation, it’s time to “treat yo self” — with an additional $100 discount on Disrupt 2020...

    Join Twilio’s Jeff Lawson for a live Q&A today at 2:30 pm EDT/11:30 am PDT – TechCrunch

    Later today, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is joining the TechCrunch crew for a live Q&A. The discussion is part of our Extra Crunch Live series...

    Medication and Lifestyle May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

    Alas, two long-known protective factors — early childbearing (in the teens and 20s) and prolonged breastfeeding — run headlong into the life goals of...

    YC’s most anticipated startup raised $16M from A16z before Demo Day – TechCrunch

    Trove, a startup that sells a suite of internal compensation tools to other startups, has quietly graduated from this summer’s Y Combinator batch with...

    Young Adults’ Pandemic Mental Health Risks

    “Our college students are emerging adults,” said Betty Lai, an assistant professor of counseling psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development...