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Celebrities and other VIPS across the world— including Bill Gates, the pope and Hillary Clinton — were devoid of official checkmarks Thursday afternoon as self-dubbed Twitter chief twit Elon Musk’s promised purge of legacy Twitter…
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Damon Lindelof and Tara Hernandez weren’t thinking about humanlike chatbots or hallucinating algorithms when they hatched the idea for a TV series about a powerful artificial intelligence that entranced users around the world. It was early…
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A 26-year-old Home Depot employee in Pleasanton was fatally shot this week when he confronted a shoplifter inside the hardware store, according to Alameda County officials. Blake Mohs, 26, who worked as a “loss prevention employee” at the…
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Elliot Grainge, who recently signed hip-hop sensation Ice Spice to his 10K Projects record label.(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Last summer, over sushi at Nobu in Malibu, Elliot Grainge convinced the hottest rapper in the world…
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On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX‘s massive, uncrewed Starship rocket — considered key to the future of U.S. human space exploration — roared off the launch pad and soared into the south Texas sky for a few minutes but…
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By rejecting Berkeley’s ban on natural gas lines in new buildings, a federal appeals court has thrown into doubt dozens of similar prohibitions across California, including in Los Angeles. But what does it mean for you?The ruling won’t stop…
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Rushes to judgment seldom come at you any faster than the commentary about the killing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee in a deserted neighborhood of San Francisco early on the morning of April 4. The stabbing death of Lee was almost…
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Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News was settled for $787.5 million at the start of a trial Tuesday. Based on a series of sneak peeks at the damning evidence against Fox developed in pretrial discovery, the lucrative…
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The last time an overnight train connected Los Angeles and San Francisco was 55 years ago.A Newport Beach-based startup wants to turn back the clock with its version of a “hotel train.”The luxury overnight train could soon provide a new way…
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Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service is coming to an end. The company announced Tuesday that it is saying goodbye to its original business — mailing out DVDs in its signature red envelopes — after 25 years. “Our goal has always been to provide the…
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