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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. In the Los Angeles area, those risks are now impossible to ignore. Nichole Wissman is an assistant professor of management at the University of San Diego.

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Netflix faces trademark suit over basketball team name and branding in ‘Running Point’

Fast Company Tech

The new Netflix series Running Point stars Kate Hudson as president of a fictional pro basketball team, the Los Angeles Waves. Attorneys for Pepperdine University in Malibu have filed a lawsuit against the streaming service and Warner Bros. And the Pepperdine Waves have a problem with it. Blue waves in California?

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Remote-controlled delivery carts are now working for the local Los Angeles grocer

TechCrunch

Robots are no longer the high-tech tools reserved for university labs, e-commerce giants and buzzy Silicon Valley startups. The companies have launched the product offering in Los Angeles with three customers. But it has the makings of expanding far beyond Los Angeles. The local grocer now has access too.

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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Los Angeles-based Lorcan OHerlihy Architects , for instance, has advanced the concept of shipping container architecture, ushering it into the realm of sustainable neighborhood development. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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Movie theater trade group rebrands as Cinema United. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

Jason Reitman along with more than 30 directors including Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan and Bradley Cooper last February acquired Westwoods Village Theater in Los Angeles , which dates back to 1931. The headquarters of our biggest members are not in Los Angeles or New York. Theyre in Knoxville, Dallas and Kansas.”

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New discoveries help astronomers crack 1181 AD supernova mystery

TechSpot

The trail heated up in 2021 when researchers at the University of Manchester, using observations from an amateur astronomer in Los Angeles, traced SN 1181 back to its likely origin – a nebula some 7,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. Typically, a supernova of SN 1181's Type Ia. Read Entire Article

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The US Army is funding research into silent communication via brain signals

TechSpot

It is being led by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; Duke University; and New York University, along with. As reported by C4isrnet, the US Army Research Office has put up $6.25 million in funding for the project over the next five years.