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Miso Robotics' Officially Deploys At CaliBurger, Inks Sports Partnership

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Pasadena-based robot developer Miso Robotics says it has officially launched its burger flipping robot, "Flippy", at CaliBurger's Pasadena location--and, separately, has inked a partnership to bring its robotics technology to the sports and entertainment venue market. Miso's robot flips burger patties and cooks them to order, removing them from the grill when ready.

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Annual Update: California's Food and Agriculture Industry

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 -- ACG 101 Annual Food and Agriculture Update. California's $45 billion agriculture industry has long had to deal with problems like drought, labor shortages, steep land prices and regulatory pressures. This year, natural disasters have brought even more challenges to our area's food and ag industry. Today these vitally important food producers have to respond to new demands from retailers and consumers, and conduct business in a global market.

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SpaceX Sets Hispasat Launch For Tuesday Morning

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX said today that it is now targeting launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for tonight, at 12:33 a.m. EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX--which had originally planned to launch the satellite payload in February--said the satellite will be the largest, geostationary satellite the company has ever flown.

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Silicon Beach Report March 5: SpaceX Set to Launch Hispasat 30W-6 Satellite

L.A. Business Journal

SpaceX set to launch Hispasat 30W-6 satellite; Miso Robotics unleashes burger flipping robot; and LA tech companies raise $411 million in February.

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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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Qualcomm Shipping 802.11ax Gateway To Japan

socalTECH

San Diego-based Qualcomm said this morning that it has shipped the world's first available draft 802.11ax carrier gateway product. According to Qualcomm, the company's new IPQ807x family of 802.11ax chipsets are being deployed in a new device, the BL1000HQ, to home subscribers in Japan, and will offer up 4x higher wireless networking throughput to users.

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Battling Cyber Hackers: The Next Generation of War Games

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In 2017, society experienced more data security breaches than any year prior. “The final number of data breaches reported was 1,579, a 45 percent increase over 2016’s number of data breaches. Businesses continued to suffer the majority of breaches and more than eight times the number of Social Security numbers were exposed in 2017 than in 2016,” according to a report by the Identity Resource Center.

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10 Investor Approaches To Avoid When You Need Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Others will work hard on a business plan, and then mail it indiscriminately to every potential investor they can find on the Internet. Both of these approaches are a waste of your time and theirs.

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SCALE 16x. The Sixteenth Annual Southern California Linux Expo.

SoCal Tech Calendar

Sunday, March 11, 2018 --.

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San Diego Faces Its Future as a Tech Hub Without Qualcomm as Anchor

Xconomy

As Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) prepares for its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, March 6, its takeover battle with Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM ), has much of San Diego pondering a question reminiscent of a Joni Mitchell song: “Oh, don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?” If Qualcomm accept Broadcom’s proposal, estimated at somewhere around $120 billion, San Diego community leaders say the effects would be far-reaching—even i

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Vividion Lands $101M from Celgene to Develop Protein-Targeting Drugs

Xconomy

Vividion Therapeutics is partnering with Celgene to develop new drugs that modulate protein levels as a way of treating disease. Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ) will pay San Diego-based Vividion $101 million up front, which includes an equity investment. The partnership will last four years, but Celgene, based in Summit, NJ, has the option to pay more to extend it for another two years.

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