Following judging, 10 top inventions were selected to advance to the California Invention Convention, where young inventors from across the state will compete on April 26 for top honors and the chance to move onto Nationals this summer.
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News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
Smartwatch makers are blocked from accessing the iMessage APIs necessary to offer full messaging functionality, forcing consumers who want that feature to buy an Apple Watch.
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Jordan Sekulow,
Boston Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
Right now, the community is buzzing about what Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet (which is showing in Geneva again following a seven-year hiatus), and other makers will unveil at Watches and Wonders—and the satellite events taking place across the city next week.
The innovators on the front lines have the most granular understanding of these models, and ignoring their technical expertise is a recipe for a regulatory regime that is obsolete before the ink is even dry.
First, movies are workplaces, and Nirenberg’s interviewees reveal the stressful negotiations involved in the daily life of filmmaking—not only with executives and producers but also with directors, who, though employed by those very same businesspeople, are also the immediate bosses of the crew.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Potash, the potassium-rich component of fertilizers, has also been in short supply in recent years, in part because of economic sanctions on Belarus and Russia, which are major potash producers.
State officials have a chance to signal that California is serious about keeping job creators here, not driving them out.
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Tom Manzo,
Oc Register,
6 Apr. 2026
However, advanced-level creators who want to edit Raw images in a desktop app will want to use a correction profile to remove the barrel distortion the zoom shows at wide angles.
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