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Santa Monica couple fights Snapchat over 'geofilter' trademark
A Santa Monica couple seeking to defend more than two years of part-time work is going to battle with Snap Inc. over whether the term “geofilters” can be trademarked.
Tracy and Paul Grand picked up a partial victory this month when the international body in charge of website name disputes ruled against Snap’s bid to snatch geofilters.com from their control.
Their next move is expected to be a formal filing in August opposing Snap’s effort to secure a U.S. trademark for the word “geofilter.” In Snap’s Snapchat messaging app, geofilters apply decorative graphics to images that...
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Santa Monica couple fights Snapchat over 'geofilter' trademark
A Santa Monica couple seeking to defend more than two years of part-time work is going to battle with Snap Inc. over whether the term “geofilters” can be trademarked.
Tracy and Paul Grand picked up a partial victory this month when the international...
Revenge of Y2K? A software bug might have caused false alert for big (and very old) earthquake
Remember Y2K, that hyped computer bug and harbinger of digital apocalypse that never happened when the year 2000 arrived?
Well, 17 years later, it appears something like a Y2K bug played a role in a mistaken alert sent out Wednesday about a magnitude...
From the Archives: 1968 protest against possible Star Trek cancellation
After two seasons and low ratings, "Star Trek" was facing cancellation by NBC. Fans led a national campaign, including this Caltech protest, to save it.
In the Jan. 8, 1968, Los Angeles Times, staff writer Jerry Ruhlow reported:
Students at Caltech...
Hired in 1958 as a 'computer,' Sue Finley talks about her long career at JPL
Sue Finley, 80, has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge for more than 50 years. She was first hired in 1958 as a “computer,” an employee who calculated mathematical equations, such as rocket or spacecraft trajectories, by...
Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era
Lou Harrison, the beloved California composer, would have turned 100 this spring, and arguably the most important centenary event will come Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall with a sold-out staged production of his long-evolving opera “Young Caesar.”...
These 12 Americans had the right stuff to be picked for NASA's new class of astronaut trainees
Meet 12 of the coolest, most accomplished people in America — the members of NASA’s newest class of astronaut candidates.
These impressive overachievers have studied cave slime on Earth and Gale Crater on Mars. They’ve worked on nuclear submarines...
After LIGO detects a third black hole collision, gravitational wave astronomy is here to stay
Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, much farther two previous discoveries.
The findings by...
San Diego faces heightened risk of major earthquakes, studies say
New research released this week found that a fault under the heart of San Diego can produce stronger and more frequent earthquakes than previously thought.
It’s the second study in recent months pointing to heightened quake risks in the San Diego area....
After years of planning, California is likely to roll out its earthquake warning system next year
California will likely roll out a limited public earthquake early warning system sometime next year, researchers building the network say.
New earthquake sensing stations are being installed in the ground, software is being improved, and operators are...
Movie events and revivals: May 21-27
Stop Making Sense (1984) was director Jonathan Demme’s first foray into documentary concert films. Shot during a three-night engagement at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, the film captured the avant-garde band Talking Heads at the peak of its fame and...
JPL film documents turbulent ‘90s, Hubble lens error and those who came ‘To the Rescue’
For those unable to secure their “Ticket to Explore JPL” this weekend, another opportunity to peek behind the curtain of La Cañada’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory takes place Tuesday evening when the documentary “To the Rescue” is screened at Caltech’s...
Astronomer readies local students for Great American Eclipse
For the first time in about 100 years, a total solar eclipse will cross the country in August. On Monday, an astronomer told local students what they can expect to see during a celestial event called the Great American Eclipse.
Jay Pasachoff, director...
Earthquake early warning system nets $10.2 million in Congress' budget deal
The budget deal reached in Congress this week penciled in $10.2 million for an earthquake early warning system for California and the rest of the West Coast for the budget year that ends in September.
The funding represents an increase from the last...
The Valley Line: English Tudor revival home is spectacular as this year’s Pasadena Showcase House
On the evening of Friday, April 21, just as a lavender dusk was washing over the landscape, more than 200 guests boarded shuttle buses from Caltech’s Athenaeum in Pasadena to journey to the premiere opening of the 53rd Showcase House of Design.
The...
L.A. theater openings, April 30-May 7: 'The Gary Plays' and more
This week: A play cycle about an out-of-work L.A. actor, a decades-spanning romantic musical, and an evening of traditional Japanese theater in Little Tokyo.
Four by Four Las Vegas-style revue celebrates the music of the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees and...
From the Archives: Earth Day 1970
Designed as an environmental teach-in day, 20 million Americans participated in the original Earth Day -- with events in numerous communities and on school campuses.
This photo, by retired Los Angeles Times photographer George Fry, accompanied a...
Why L.A. scientists plan to march on Saturday
The March for Science is kind of a funny thing.
The organizers insist that the event will be nonpartisan. But it will feature many of the trappings of a political march — signs, chants and speakers riling up the crowd.
The situation presents a...
L.A. venture capitalists who missed Snapchat don't want to make the same mistake twice
There’s a new factor driving Los Angeles start-up investment: Snapchat-induced fear of missing out.
That’s according to Chris Hameetman, president of Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles — the region’s leading angel investor organization. He says concern...
Earthquake on the beach: Scientists think a 7.4 temblor could reach from L.A. to San Diego
The discovery of missing links between earthquake faults shows how a magnitude 7.4 temblor could rupture virtually simultaneously underneath Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, a new study finds.
Such an earthquake would be 30 times more...