UC San Diego nets $11.3M grant to cut costs, risks of designing cutting edge chips

Andrew Kahng from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering will serve as director of the OpenROAD project, which aims to reduce the time and cost of designing cutting edge silicon chips. Andrew Kahng from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering will serve as director of the OpenROAD project, which aims to reduce the time and cost of designing cutting edge silicon chips.

Dianne Feinstein remains favorite in Californiaa s U.S. Senate race despite snub

Kevin de Leon, a sparsely known liberal legislator trying to oust U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, staged an insider coup Saturday by winning the endorsement of state Democratic Party leaders. The embarrassing snub to Feinstein was a testament to the leftward shift of California Democratic activists in the age of President Donald Trump, highlighting a long-running split between the party establishment and its restive liberal wing.

Why Facebook tie-up with China’s Huawei is the sum of all US fears

'If Facebook granted Huawei special access to social data of Americans, it might as well have given it directly to the government of China' Amid the uproar over Facebook's admission that it shared user data with Chinese device makers is an undercurrent of tension between the United States and China over technological dominance. Not only was Facebook passing previously undisclosed personal information to other companies, but also one of the dozens of firms involved was Huawei, a Chinese firm flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security risk because of its alleged ties to China's government.

Israeli DACA Recipient Facing Deportation After Accidentally Entering Mexico

An Israeli citizen living in California under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status was jailed for nearly a week and threatened with deportation after making a wrong turn at the U.S.-Mexico border. Orr Yakobi, 22, is a senior at the University of California, San Diego.

Trump’s opponents race to the courthouse to thwart him

When President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 12 he would stop subsidies to health insurers critical to the Obamacare law, the response from Democratic state officials was swift and predictable: a lawsuit by 18 state attorneys general was filed within 24 hours. FILE PHOTO: The SoCal Health Care Coalition protests U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on healthcare at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California, U.S. on October 12, 2017.

It’s time for the feds to stop micromanaging birth control in the US

It might surprise American women to learn the process most of them have to undergo to access hormonal birth control - which requires an annual screening and a prescription from an obstetrician-gynecologist - is fairly unusual in most countries around the globe. A 2012 survey conducted by researchers at Ibis Reproductive Health and published in the journal Contraception looked at rules in 147 countries and found that only 31 percent of them required a doctor's prescription to obtain oral contraceptives.

New research finds the U.S. may not need a wall to keep immigrants out

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The White House is already moving forward with its plan to construct a massive wall along the southern border of the country. But new research suggests the influx of low-skilled immigrants is already dropping, as forces that are far more powerful than a wall act to keep immigrants out.

The government came up with ridiculous ways to waste your money in 2016

The National Science Foundation and UC San Diego spent $1.5 million to put a mudskipper fish on a treadmill. The federal government spent huge taxpayer dollars to study the popularity of Barbie dolls and how long a fish could exercise on a treadmill, according to a new report by a U.S. senator.

Policy Prescriptions Trump and Clinton on global trade

Hillary Clinton repudiates an ambitious Asia-Pacific trade deal she once praised and vows to appoint a special prosecutor to keep U.S. trading partners in line. American trade policy is taking a bipartisan beating this election year, reflecting voters' deep skepticism over the benefits of open trade with China and other countries at a time of sluggish economic growth and stagnant incomes.

Cutter Healy to depart for 2nd mission to West Arctic

Petty Officer 2nd Class James A. Bowell directs Cutter Healy's man basket onto the ice off the Chukchi Sea, north of the Arctic Circle July 12. During Cutter Healy's first of three missions during their West Arctic Summer Deployment, a team of 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration studied the Chukchi Sea ecosystem. SEWARD, Alaska - Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy is set to depart Tuesday on a second Artic mission after mooring in Seward to disembark 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from its first mission.