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May 17, 2024 | dot.la | Christian Hetrick

🔦 SpotlightHappy Friday Los Angeles!This week’s spotlight showcases LA’s thriving tech scene, featuring Snapchat’s latest feature updates and two local startups Liquid Death and Altruist, making TechCrunch’s Unicorn List for 2024. Image Source: SnapSnapchat’s recent fall updates bring fresh features, including a new iPhone camera shortcut for instant snaps, Halloween-inspired AI-powered Lenses, and Bitmoji costumes inspired by Mean Girls and Yellowstone.

Feb 2, 2024 | dot.la | Wil Chockley

🔦 Spotlight Does it feel like your power goes out more and more these days? You’re not crazy - it actually does. Incidence of power outages has increased almost 20% in the years 2013 to 2021, from about 1.2 per household per year to over 1.4. While that might not be noticeable to the average person, the average duration of power outages has increased by over 100%(!) from around 3.5 hours to over 7 hours. And that isn’t the only problem with the electrical grid in California.

Jan 17, 2024 | dot.la | Wil Chockley

This is Part II of our deep dive on Adam Miller, one of LA’s most successful (and philanthropic) tech entrepreneurs. When we left off Adam’s story last week, he had just sold his Santa Monica-based HR tech company Cornerstone OnDemand for $5.2B in 2021. (If you missed Part I last week, you can find that here.) After 20 years of company building and an exit like Cornerstone’s, most of us would take a deep breath and think about retirement, or at least a very long vacation.

Jan 10, 2024 | dot.la | Wil Chockley

If you donā€™t know Adam Miller, he is almost certainly the most important person in LA tech youā€™ve never heard of. If you know Adam, congrats! Youā€™re a lucky individual. Read on anyway because Iā€™m sure youā€™ll learn something new about one of the godfathers of tech in Los Angeles.Ā  Given all the interesting things Adam has done and is doing, weā€™re going to be telling his story in two parts.

Jan 3, 2024 | dot.la | Wil Chockley

Happy 2024, dot.LA readers and tech enthusiasts! We’re kicking off the new year with a profile of an early stage startup right at the intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley: CyberFilm AI. Read on to learn about how Russell Palmer (an AI engineer and product manager) and his brother Andrew (a computer science major turned filmmaker) are building a company to lead Hollywood into the AI era.