For online marketers, getting advertisements in front of internet users likely to become long-term customers is crucial to the success of a campaign. To that end, Santa Monica-based startup Retina AI Inc. is developing technology that gives companies the ability to predict whether a specific web user might be likely to respond to an ad — and report whether they already have in the past.
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Chula Vista looking for experts to join new task force on technology and privacy
Chula Vista is looking for individuals with expertise in technology and data privacy to join a new task force that will help create a citywide technology oversight policy.
Los Angeles Business Journal: NVISIONx Raises $4.6 Million for Cybersecurity Platform
The cybersecurity industry has advanced significantly over the last decade, but data breaches and ransomware attacks at large corporations continue to occur relatively frequently. …
UCSD News: Engineering Students to Compete in International Maritime Robot Competition
For the past three months, a team of engineering students at UC San Diego has been adding cameras, LiDAR systems, a hydrophone, and even a drone to a 16-foot seagoing vessel. Their goal? To compete in the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Australia in November 2022.
dot.LA: Why Credit Unions Are Getting Into the Crypto Game
It’s been a rollercoaster three months since Torrance-based Unify Federal Credit Union became the first credit union in the U.S. to begin offering its members the ability to trade Bitcoin.
San Diego Union-Tribune: Social media and the future of democracy
If you’re still weary from the 2020 presidential election, you’d better steel your nerves. Midterm election primaries are practically upon us.
dot.LA: This Week in ‘Raises’: Spotter and Epirus Haul $200M Each, Fifth Wall Launches Euro Fund
Raises is dot.LA’s weekly feature highlighting venture capital funding news across Southern California’s tech and startup ecosystem.
My News LA: Starry Internet Expands To Avalon Gardens To Provide Affordable Broadband
Los Angeles officials have announced the expansion of internet provider Starry, Inc. to 164 households in Avalon Gardens, a public housing project in Green Meadows operated by the Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles.
News Wise: UCLA Health seeks applicants for TechQuity – a health equity-focused innovation accelerator
UCLA Health, in partnership with BioscienceLA and UCLA Biodesign, has launched a new accelerator at the intersection of health equity and technology. Aimed at supporting long-term community health resilience and improvements in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UCLA Health TechQuity Accelerator seeks to bridge clinical excellence and innovation for diverse patient populations.
San Diego Union-Tribune: California is first state to surpass 1 million in sales of plug-in vehicles
California is the first U.S. state to exceed 1 million sales and leases of plug-in vehicles, according to numbers compiled by the California Energy Commission.
