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How Arivale Is Harnessing Genomics To Optimize Human Health and Wellness

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There's been a revolution in the amount of information that can be gathered about our genetics�driven by automated gene sequencing equipment and advancement. However, all of that data, although useful, has not yet been used in a way that directly impacts personal health and wellness most effectively. Arivale (www.arivale.com), a startup founded by Dr.

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Ultimate Investor Festival

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 -- Ultimate Investor Festival – 3 days of startup pitching to over 70 Institutional Investors. The Biggest Startup Pitch event in the USA – 5 days of focus to get your startup funded at the Investor Festival.

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Recursor.TV Debuts Science Fiction Video Site

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Los Angeles-based Recursor.TV said on Tuesday that it has launched a brand new site, which is focused on indie, science fiction video. The site--founded by E.J. Kavounas, Edouard de Lachomette and Steve Tao--said it will feature curate short films and series from independent filmmakers, and its own original content. The site allows users to search for content based on types of science fiction (alien encounters?

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LA Tech Summit

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 -- LA Tech Summit. LA Tech Summit is aimed at bringing together LA technology companies, investors, incubators and startups. Attended by 900+ members of the LA tech community since 2013, the summit is SoCal’s premier tech event. The LA Tech Summit allows attendees to meet the hottest companies in Los Angeles and learn what makes "LA Tech" the most innovative technology ecosystem in the nation.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Oblong Industries Finds $65M

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Los Angeles-based Oblong Industries , the developer of gesture-enabled user interface technology, has raised $65M in an expansion stage investment, according to the company. The funding came from Greenspring Associates, Industry Ventures, and UTIMCO, as well as Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group. Oblong said its customers now include NASA, PwC, and IBM, along other Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies.

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Silicon Beach Report Oct. 19: Oblong Industries Raises $65 Million

L.A. Business Journal

Oblong Industries raises $65 million, image stability technology manufacturer MEMS Drive raises $11 million, CBS Orders Candy Crush game show, and more.

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Oblong Industries Raises $65 Million

L.A. Business Journal

Oblong Industries, the Los Angeles-based developer of spatial, immersive, and gesture-enabled technologies, announced Tuesday that the company raised a total of $65 million during its expansion funding round thanks to investments from new and existing investors.

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Utelogy Raises Series A

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Costa Mesa-based Utelogy , a developer of audio/visual control and analytics software for the higher education and enterprise market, has raised a Series A funding round, the company said Tuesday. Size of the funding was not announced, nor were the names of the investors in the funding. According to Utelogy, it will use the funding to hire software developers and additional support staff.

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Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart

Xconomy

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. GE Healthcare, a unit of Boston-based industrial giant General Electric , recognized some limits on MRI scanners like its own, and started collaborating with Stanford University physicians more than five years ago on next-generation MRI technology to better diagnose p

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MEMS Drive Finds $11M

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Pasadena-based MEMS Drive , which is developing micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) stabilization actuators for smartphone cameras, has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Walden International. The company said the new funding will help it ramp production of its MEMS systems, which are used in smartphones to provide image stabilization in cameras.

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How An Entrepreneur Can Win In This Age Of Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction.

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All In One Place: A New Immuno-Oncology Trial Resource

Xconomy

More than 100 years ago, New York bone surgeon William Coley began to suspect that bacterial infections might be improving the outlook for patients also suffering from cancer. The infections were turbo-charging the immune system. Coley (pictured) would be gratified to see that in 2016 a growing array of immune-boosting cancer treatments are helping some patients in dire straits, including former U.S.

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Efficient multiple-stream concatenation in Java

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I want to combine the elements of multiple Stream instances into a single Stream. What's the best way to do this? This article compares a few different solutions. Stream.concat(a, b). The JDK provides Stream.concat(a, b) for concatenating two streams. void exampleConcatTwo () {. Stream a = Stream. of ( "one" , "two" ); Stream b = Stream. of ( "three" , "four" ); Stream out = Stream. concat ( a , b ); out. forEach ( System. out :: println ); // Output: // one. // two. // three. // four. }.

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The Power of the Cloud for Life Science R&D

Xconomy

“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it’s the fast fish which eats the slow fish…” — Klaus Schwab, Founder/Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum. Over the past decade, the nature of innovation has changed—even as the pace has substantially increased. One of the reasons has been the ability to collect and analyze vast amounts of digital data, transforming industries from transportation and finance to defense and manufacturing