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Life Technologies Signs On As First Competitor In Genomics X PRIZE

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San Diego-based Life Technologies , the maker of life sciences equipment, has signed on as the first competitor in the Archon Genomics X PRIZE , the life sciences prize being administered by Marina Del Rey-based X Prize Foundation. READ MORE>>.

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XPRIZE Awards $15M In Global Learning Competition

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Marina Del Rey-based XPRIZE , the organization led by Dr. Peter H. According to XPRIZE, it decided to split the top $10M award in the competition between two winners-- Kitkit School , which has developed a learning program using a "game-based core"; and onebillion , a developer of "numeracy content" and literacy material.

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XPRIZE Foundation Eyes Wildfire Detection, Suppression

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Marina Del Rey-based XPRIZE Foundation , the group which runs competitions to spur innovation in technology to help solve major societal problems or very hard technical problems, says it is going to launch a new prize to spur ideas for wildfire detection and suppression.

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XPRIZE To Award $1M Bonus Prize For Ocean Discovery Contest

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Marina Del Rey-based XPRIZE , the group which runs challenges to help advance the development of technology, will award a $1M bonus prize this month in Monaco for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE , according to the nonprofit. READ MORE>>.

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Local Firms Rank In Deloitte Fast 500

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Other highly ranking firms were Carlsbad-based Genoptix , with 3,451% growth; Marina del Rey-based Awareness Technologies , ranked #42, with 3,317% growth; San Diego's Entropic Communications , with 3027% growth, and Calabasas-based BlackLine Systems , ranked at #61, 2,063% five year growth.

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SpaceX To Deliver Robots To The Moon

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ispace is leveraging technology developed by one of the teams in the Lunar XPRIZE, run by Marina Del Rey-based XPRIZE Foundation, in what had been an attempt to win cash prize money offered by XPRIZE for landing a mission on the moon this year. That effort expired in March.

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XPRIZE Launches Pandemic Alliance To Tackle COVID-19

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Marina del Rey-based XPRIZE has launched a new effort, the XPRIZE Pandemic Allaince , which it says will help scale the impact and promise of solutions to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.