TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based movie information, streaming, and reservations service Fandango has just received a win in court, after a California federal judge ruled in the company's favor in a patent invalidation case against Japanese company Maxwell, Ltd. Fandango had been seeking to invalidate three patents held by Maxwell over allowing access to movie and television shows for a set rental period.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Shamrock Capital Advisors led a $30 million investment round in artificial intelligence and sports video production firm Pixellot

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Carlsbad-based RF semiconductor maker MaxLinear and partner NewVasTek announced this morning that the two companies have teamed up to develop a joint, reference design for a wireless 5G modem. According to the two, the design combines MaxLinear's AirPHY multi-gigabit modem technology with NewVasTek's resonant wireless power technology. The two said the design solves "a critical problem" required for 5G fixed wireless access providers using millimeter wave frequencies (28-60GHz), which is getting

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Netflix argues against Missouri classification; SpaceX sending mystery man – or woman – to the moon; SnapChat bringing “Our Stories” to the newsroom

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

SpaceX said on Thursday that it has booked the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon, about the company's BFR launch vehicle. SpaceX did not announce the name or details on the passenger, saying that it will be making a formal announcement on Monday, September 17th of the deal. According to the company, the move is an "important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Irvine-based digital mobile radio (DMR) developer Hytera is scuffling with Motorola Solutions in court, saying on Friday that it has filed a "motion to dismiss" in the Federal District Court in Illinois, over a copyright infringement claim against the company. Motorola had sued Hytera--which is based in China but has its U.S. headquarters in Irvine--over multiple patent infringement claims.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

[ Updated 9:15 a.m., see below. ] Jen King was in a hurry to get out the door of her Bay Area home on a recent morning, and she missed a call to her cell phone because of it. The phone number that called her, she later discovered, was startling. “It was my home phone calling me, which was not possible,” says King, who recently finished a doctorate in information science and now works at Stanford University.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Venice-based Snap is deepening its ties to major media companies, saying on Thursday that it will expand its Our Stories feature to allow those companies to pull user-submitted videos to create their own stories. According to Deadline, the deal helps partners like CNN, NBC News, and NowThis combine user-submitted videos while adding their own context, graphics, and other information.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Students and shoppers will soon be using technology developed by Aira, a San Diego startup that links vision-impaired people with “visual interpreters” via smartphone and smart glasses, to help them navigate their environments. In recent weeks Aira announced that its accessibility service would be available at no cost to those who need it while at UC San Diego, in about 5,000 AT&T stores, and at all Wegmans grocery stores.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The long running patent feud over CRISPR-Cs9 gene editing appears to be over, just as U.S. biotech companies gear up for the first human tests of the landmark technology. This week, a federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling handing a CRISPR-Cas9 patent to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The decision by the three-judge panel essentially said that the Broad patent was different enough so as not to infringe on a patent awarded to a rival group at the University of California, Berkele

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