LOS GATOS, California, April 19 -- Netflix, an Internet television network provider, issued the following news: Netflix has officially begun production of The Witcher Season 4 and shared a sneak peek of the cast together from the recent table read. Netflix has also greenlit Season 5 of The Witcher, which will film back-to-back with Season 4, and will be the final chapter in Geralt's story. Seasons 4 and 5 will adapt the remaining of Sapkowski's books, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow  more

IRVINE, California, April 19 -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: Four University of California, Irvine researchers - working in fields as diverse as computational chemistry, statistical methods, particle physics and inorganic chemistry - have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. "Congratulations to the four UC Irvine researchers named fellows of the American As  more

BURBANK, California, April 19 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release: * * * Special Crossover Episode of '9-1-1' With 'The Bachelor' Is Top Program of the Night Among Adults 18-49, Reaching Season High With Linear Viewing Series' Milestone 100th Featuring Joey Graziadei Scores Best L7 Rating Since May 2023 * * * * Season to date and hot off its stellar season premiere and 8th season renewal, ABC's "9-1-1" ranks as the No. 1 drama in primetime in Adults 18-49 (t  more

BURBANK, California, April 19 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: * * * SUNDAY, APRIL 21 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT - America's Funniest Home Videos: "3418" (3418) Logline: It's a bird; it's a plane; it's AFV back with more laughter, featuring a missing cupcake and a suspect who is caught icing-faced, a whole lot of mischievous cats and a lash technician who plays pranks on her unsuspecting customers. (TV-PG) Watch episodes next day on Hulu. Rela  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today held a virtual press conference announcing nearly $200 million in new state funds to help move people out of encampments and into housing. Along with this announcement, the Governor also announced new measures that will increase oversight of state homelessness funding to ensure accountability by local jurisdictions. WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM   more

SAN JOSE, California, April 19 -- Calix, a communications service providers, issued the following news release: Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) announces it has achieved an AA rating from the environmental, social, and governance ratings agency MSCI. This represents a notable achievement just one year after Calix formally established its office of sustainability, tapping Martha Galley to lead as chief sustainability officer. As of 2024, Calix has earned a cumulative "Industry-Adjusted" score of 7.3 to  more

ARCATA, California, April 19 -- The California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt issued the following news: Cal Poly Humboldt's interactive 3D Digital Herbarium won the American Library Association's Best Emerging Technology Application Award. "This award recognizes the importance of student project-based learning and the impact of collaborative innovation with students, the campus community, and the world. Co-creating new powerful learning environments is a role we are very familiar with;  more

FULLERTON, California, April 18 (TNSres) -- California State University Fullerton campus issued the following news release: * * * Class of 2024 Grad Joshua Bhasera Receives Alumni Association's Outstanding Senior Award * * * For psychology grad Joshua Bhasera, his academic quest began in Kadoma, a gold mining town in Zimbabwe where he grew up. His parents later sent him to South Africa for better educational opportunities. As a young adult, the Cal State Fullerton honors student came to the  more

PASADENA, California, April 18 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Lynne Hillenbrand, professor of astronomy at Caltech, and Anneila Sargent (PhD '78), the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, have been named 2023 AAAS Fellows. In addition, Joseph Giaime, the head of the LIGO Livingston laboratory, which is managed by Caltech and MIT, has also been named a fellow. According to the AAAS, or American Association for the Advancement of Science, the fellow  more

PASADENA, California, April 17 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Since 1998, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans have been awarded to immigrants and children of immigrants for their graduate studies in the United States. This year, the fellowship was awarded to 30 graduate students, including Abigail Jiang, who graduated from Caltech in 2023 with a double major in materials science and history, and is now studying applied physics at Harvard; a  more

SAN JOSE, California, April 19 -- Cisco Systems issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in security and networking, today unveiled a radically new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure. Cisco is rearchitecting how we harness and protect AI and other modern workloads with industry-first, Cisco Hypershield. With this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping t  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 -- Cooley, a law firm, issued the following news release ON April 18, 2024: Cooley, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of West Virginia and Lambda Legal, secured a win for client Becky Pepper-Jackson in B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The Cooley team included Kathleen Hartnett, Katelyn Kang, Zoe Helstrom, Elizabeth Reinhardt and Mariah Young. In May 2021, Cooley an  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 19 -- National University issued the following news: National University (NU)--a veteran-founded nonprofit university serving over 50,000 nontraditional, working, and military students annually through its degree programs and one of the largest nonprofit Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the country--today announced a new technology pilot designed to boost student success and engagement by recreating the impact of face-to-face discussion and collaboration in a  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, April 19 -- ESPN, a sports media company, issued the following news release: ESPN Events' owned-and-operated gymnastics invitational, the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad, returns in 2025 with a new location, new lineup of teams and an added twist to the competition. Five of the eight national semifinalists competing in this weekend's NCAA National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championship will participate in the second year of the event, including top-seeded Oklah  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following fact sheet on April 18, 2024: * * * Governor Newsom Increasing Oversight of Homelessness Funds * * * Governor Newsom has taken strong action against cities and counties that fail to build more housing. Today, the Governor is proposing increased enforcement and oversight to hold cities and counties accountable when they fail to adequately address homelessness. * * * WHY THIS MATTERS: Lack of a  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a law firm, issued the following news release: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has appointed Mark Leverkus as Of Counsel in its Global Finance and Transportation and Space Practice Groups in London. Mark is recognised by The Legal 500 Rankings in Finance: Transport Finance and Leasing, and has been named a "Rising Star" by Airfinance Journal. He was previously a senior associate in the transportation and space group of Milbank, and he  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 19 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Holland & Knight has expanded its Data Strategy, Security & Privacy (DSSP) Team with the addition of Kevin Angle as senior counsel in its Boston office. He was previously counsel at Ropes & Gray. Mr. Angle partners with clients to navigate the cross-jurisdictional challenges they face regarding U.S. federal and state privacy and cybersecurity laws such as the California Consu  more

PASADENA, California, April 18 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. During its 1.8-day orbit, this moon is gravitationally squeezed by Jupiter, leading to volcanic eruptions larger than any on Earth today. Io, Europa, and Ganymede are in an orbital configuration known as a Laplace resonance: For every orbit of Ganymede (the farthest of the three from Jupiter), Europa completes exactly t  more

SANTA ROSA, California, April 19 -- Keysight Technologies, a global electronic measurement technology and market solutions provider, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduces RFPro Circuit, a next-generation radio frequency (RF) simulation tool targeting the complex, multi-physics requirements of today's RF integrated circuit (RFIC) designers. Wireless, automotive, and satellite designers can now deliver robust designs that overcome  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Occidental College issued the following news: Professor of Biology John McCormack, director and curator of Occidental College's Moore Lab of Zoology, has been selected as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. He is the 11th Occidental faculty member to receive this honor since 1911 and the first Occidental faculty member to be selected since 1980. "I  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP is advising G42, the leading UAE-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology holding company, on the $1.5 billion strategic investment by Microsoft in G42. The investment will strengthen the two companies' collaboration on bringing the latest Microsoft AI technologies and skilling initiatives to the UAE and other countries around the world. G42 is a technology holding group,   more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Proposition 65 & Green Chemistry Practice with the addition of Will Wagner, who rejoins the firm as a shareholder in the Sacramento office. Wagner focuses on consumer product defense, with an emphasis on litigation relating to California's Prop 65, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), greenwashing, and false advertising. He also has a   more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 -- California State University in Sacramento issued the following news: By Cynthia Hubert Sacramento State is reaching out to over 2,000 students in the Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) eligible for admission to the University but who have yet to complete applications. The "guaranteed admissions" initiative is a pilot program that reflects the Sac State's commitment to serving high school students in the area who may be unaware that they are eligible   more

LA JOLLA, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release: Salk Institute Professor Satchidananda Panda has been named a 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Panda is among 502 new AAAS Fellows spanning 24 scientific disciplines who were nominated by their peers for their distinguished efforts to advance scien  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 -- The Sacramento City Unified School District issued the following news release: The Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education is proud to announce the appointment of Lisa Allen to serve as Superintendent. The Board voted unanimously to approve a Superintendent contract with Mrs. Allen based on her performance as Interim Superintendent since July 2023. Currently in her 28th year of service to the families of SCUSD, Mrs. Allen has proven to be  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- Squire Patton Boggs, a law firm, issued the following news: The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Squire Patton Boggs litigation partner Adam Fox, to its "Top 100 Lawyers" list, which recognizes the finest attorneys in the region who represent and impact the local business community with their ongoing efforts as outstanding legal professionals. With more than 25 years of legal experience, Adam has tried cases to verdict throughout the country, and even  more

SANTA BARBARA, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Yardi Matrix, a part of Yardi Systems, issued the following news release: Preleasing at Yardi 200 schools hit 67.7 percent in March, exceeding last year's pace by 2.4 percent, while rent growth accelerated to six percent, according to the latest Yardi(R) Matrix National Student Housing Report. As of March, the average rent reached $895 per bedroom, marking an all-time high for the sector. A total of 41 universities had double-digit rent growth, w  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, April 19 -- The Los Angeles Times issued the following news release: An anticipated 155,000 people will gather for L.A. Times' annual Festival of Books - the largest literary festival in the nation - this weekend on the USC campus in the heart of the downtown arts and education corridor. The festival will bring together more than 550 writers, celebrities, experts and storytellers, and hundreds of exhibitors on the 226-acre campus. Admission is free and the event is open   more

SANTA CRUZ, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Mike Pena and Allison Arteaga Soergel Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world's largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. They are Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, emerita distinguished research professor of anthropology; longtime  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Elisa Smith Eight UC Santa Cruz research teams focusing on some of the most pressing issues of our time, such as cancer detection, data encryption, and climate change, received more than $350,000 in awards as part of this year's Innovation Catalyst Grant program, administered by the university's Innovation & Business Engagement Hub. The Innovation Catalyst Grant program he  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * UCR scientist wins $1.9 million to decode nematodes' attack strategies * * * To study how parasites evolve to break the defenses of their hosts, the National Institutes of Health has granted UC Riverside nematologist Simon "Niels" Groen a $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award. Roundworm parasites infect humans, livestock, and crop plants. Insights into why certain  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Grant of up to $11 million will fund a clinical trial at UCSF that uses a smarter new CAR-T guided by precision technology. * * * A type of gene therapy called CAR-T that has extended survival for thousands of patients with leukemia and other blood cancers is being adapted at UC San Francisco to treat people with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly a  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Scientists at UCSF have identified cells in the throat that sense when fluid is aspirated, or acid is regurgitated. The work could one day help prevent pneumonia and treat chronic cough. * * * When a mouthful of water goes down the wrong pipe - heading toward a healthy person's lungs instead of their gut - they start coughing uncontrollably. That's becaus  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California issued the following news release: * * * These regions of the gene alter the abundance of mRNA and the proteins it instructs the cell to make Key takeaways * Despite progress in defining functional elements of noncoding DNA, it is still not fully understood. * UCLA researchers, using an experiment that elucidated the function of tens of thousands of noncoding variants, discovered a link between functional mutations   more

MELBOURNE, Florida, April 19 -- L3Harris Technologies, a technology company, defense contractor and information technology services provider, issued the following news release: L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received an award of option year five of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. The contract, worth up to $187 million from the U.S. Space Force, continues the modernization and sustainment of critical space infrastructure enabling th  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: The pulsating heart of innovation beat loud and clear at the recent Robotics Open House 2024, where technological robotic marvels were showcased at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The event, hosted by the USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center, was a celebration of 2024 National Robotics Week, putting USC's cutting-edge labs on display while igniting a fervor for r  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- WarnerMedia, a media and entertainment company, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today that its series "Love & Marriage: Huntsville" is set to return for an all-new season beginning Saturday, May 4 at 8/7c. The series follows the lives of a group of longtime friends and frenemies with strong personalities and strong opinions who live in Huntsville, Alabama: Melody Rodgers, her ex-husband Martell Holt,   more