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| Jul 2, 2024 | ИИ нуждается в огромной вычислительной мощности. Могут ли помочь световые чипы? | Оптические нейронные сети, использующие фотоны вместо электронов, имеют преимущества перед традиционными системами. Но они также сталкиваются и с серьезными препятствиями.
Закон Мура уже работает весьма быстро. Он утверждает, что примерно к... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers | Sahara, describing itself as a "decentralized AI network," has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Polygon Capital.
The Los Angeles-based startup was co-founded by Sean Ren, an AI researcher and tenured member of the ... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | The Lithium Race Takes Shape in the Salton Sea | Located roughly a hundred miles east of San Diego, the Salton Sea is California’s largest landlocked body of water, for now.
Measuring 5 miles across and 35 miles long in its current form, the lake was created by diverting water from the Co... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Why a Startup Needs a Board: The Why and How of Constructing a Board Early | If your business is a corporation, you are required by law to have a board of directors. For many startups, it can seem like just an option. However, there are many reasons startups should aim to form their own board of directors early in t... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Deglobalizing the Solar Industry Would Cost the World At Least $15B by 2030 | The United States is in quite the pickle when it comes to the solar industry.
On one hand, the Biden administration wants to reduce emissions and hit the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement by installing as much solar power as cheaply a... |
| Oct 23, 2021 | How 3D Printing Could Help Tackle Homelessness in LA | Los Angeles is home to the second-highest largest homeless population in the U.S. While new resources have been allocated to creating housing during the pandemic, it's not enough. Tent cities crowd freeway underpasses and sit alongside... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | USC Viterbi Engineering School Receives New $14M Gift From USC Trustee Epstein | The USC Viterbi School of Engineering announced Oct. 11 that it has received a new $14 million gift from USC Trustee Daniel Epstein to expand faculty and upgrade facilities at the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. |
| May 6, 2020 | How the USC Games Expo pivoted to an online-only event with 50 student demos | The University of Southern California Games Expo has shifted to an online-only expo with more than 50 student game demos.
USC Games director Danny Bilson said in an interview with GamesBeat that the school has had to scramble in recent week... |
| May 6, 2020 | How the USC Games Expo pivoted to an online-only event with 50 student demos | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The University of Southern California Games Expo has shifted to an online-only expo with more than 50 student game demos.
USC Games dir... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | Elon Musk is building a spaceship that's so ambitious, some experts call it 'science fiction' | Elon Musk and SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket is designed to carry up to 100 people and deliver 150 tons of cargo to Mars.
Elon Musk plans to blast a tourist around the moon in a ship made by his rocket company, SpaceX.
The private lunar mi... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Curious to crack the neural code? Listen carefully | Shahin Farshchi Contributor
Shahin Farshchi is a partner at Lux Capital.
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Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups
Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
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| Apr 28, 2015 | DARPA dreams: cortical modems and neural RAMplants for restoring active memory | A compelling encore to inventing the Internet appears more elusive for DARPA with each passing day. But what if they could put the Internet in your brain? That might turn some heads. Before anyone gets around to that, it would seem prudent ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Kleiner Perkins Heads To LA; Partners With USC And United Talent Agency For New Startup Accelerator | Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is creating a new presence in L.A., announcing a partnership today with the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering and United Talent Agency (UTA) to create a sta... |
| Nov 20, 2007 | Geosemble, for combining lots of data with maps | Combining satellite imagery with maps and other data has become very fertile ground lately, illustrated by two recent products from Geosemble and Google.
First, Google just introduced a way for you to edit the location of your (or others’) ... |
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Snap Plans To Lay Off 20% of Staff | Snap Inc. plans to lay off about 20% of its 6,400-strong workforce, according to the company.
In May, CEO Evan Spiegel said the social media giant would slow hiring, and warned revenue growth would continue to stall. At the time, Spiegel bl... |
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As Americans were still mourning the mass shootings at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Lagu... |
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Gaingels Co-Founder David Beatty Makes the Capitalist Case for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | On this episode of Office Hours, Spencer speaks with entrepreneur and venture investor David Beatty. Beatty is the managing partner and co-founder of Gaingels, an LGBTQIA+ investment syndicate aimed at fostering social change through their ... |
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What We Can Learn From AI-Created Rapper FN Meka's Failed Capitol Deal | Almost as soon as it was announced, L.A.-based Capitol Records ended its partnership with FN Meka creator Factory New.
Meka is a virtual rapper that has racked up more than 220,000 Instagram followers and over 10 million followers on its Ti... |
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This Week in 'Raises': Wildcat Discovery Lands $90M, Web3 Hang Secures $16M | A San Diego EV company raised new funding to develop a high energy density battery cell for electric vehicles, while a new Los Angeles web3 platform lands funding and attracts investments from Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, and Mr. Be... |
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Inside Ring's Cozy, Creepy Relationship with Law Enforcement | Ring, the camera doorbell company owned by Amazon, is under scrutiny after admitting to sharing users' footage with law enforcement 11 times so far this year without their explicit consent.
Founded by former “Shark Tank” entrepreneur h... |
| How One USC PhD Candidate Employs Robots To Evaluate Infants | Inside the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) multiple high definition digital cameras are set up in a fixed-rig around a 22-inch bipedal (humanoid) NAO robot and a similar-sized (human) infant, as part of a study by the Infant Neuromot... |
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Here Are the Snap Products And Teams Facing the Steepest Cuts | It’s a dark day at Santa Monica-based Snap. The firm slashed 20% of its staff Wednesday in an effort to save the company $500 million. The layoffs are expected to affect more than 1,200 employees, but some departments will be hit harder tha... |
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Invisible Universe Brings NFTs to Reality TV with ‘The R3al Metaverse’ | NFT collections like Cool Cats and Bored Apes Yacht Club have essentially become media franchises. The digital artworks are showing up as members of music groups, characters in comic books and stars of movies and TV series.
So it was only a... |
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Here Are The California Social Media Regulations Awaiting the Governor's Signature | Having passed through the state Senate, two California bills targeting social media content are awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and Social Media Companies: Terms of Service received bip... |
| Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | If homelessness in Los Angeles comes down to housing stock, one engineer has an idea for a solution: 3D printing.
Berok Khoshnevis, a professor of engineering at the University of Southern California, believes 3D printing construction techn... |
| Elon Musk is building a spaceship that's so ambitious that some experts are calling it 'science fiction.' Here's what SpaceX and its engineers are up against. | Elon Musk and SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket is designed to carry up to 100 people and deliver 150 tons of cargo to Mars. SpaceX; NASA; Mark Brake/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
Elon Musk plans to blast a tourist around the mo... |
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Outpost Wants to Launch ‘The SpaceX of Satellites’ by 2023 | Los Angeles’ reusable rocket scene is blowing up, with firms like Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Varda and Masten Space Systems taking SpaceX’s lead and developing spacecraft that can be launched multiple times. Until recently, there weren’t... |
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Sandbox Studios’ Jackie Fast on the New Ways Celebrities Are Partnering With Startups | Jackie Fast doesn’t think celebrities make good entrepreneurs. Instead, they make great assets for young companies.
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, the Sandbox Studios managing partner discusses why many celebrities are exploring... |
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Feds Investigate Tesla Crash that Killed Retired California Couple | The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Lompoc, CA retirees Mary Lou Seelandt, 66, and her husband, Karl Seelandt, 67. The couple died July 6 at ... |
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A Day in LA With the Deepfake Artists Trying To Make the Digital World As Real as the Physical One | The Palisades Village is a 125,000-square feet outdoor shopping center designed to look like a luxurious resort town in a Bond movie. The pathways are cobblestone. The lights are outfitted to look like gas lamps. Every restaurant serves Ita... |
