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This App Will Help You Remember Every Day of Your Life
Unless you’re a fictional version of Benedict Cumberbatch, you probably have a mediocre memory. We all do. Like, Monday morning rolls around and you run into Suzy from marketing at the office toaster...
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Inching Ahead with Hyperloop
Traffic sucks more when it’s ironic. This is what I think on the clogged freeways en route to an office park near UC Irvine, where a team of undergrads is working on a cure for traffic and, in a way,...
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Avoid Parking Tickets Using Your Phone
If there’s any universal human experience, it’s that deep paranoia you experience two days a week when you can’t remember if you moved your car to the non-street sweeping side of the street. Coming out...
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The L.A. Studios Driving the Future of Virtual Reality
No one knows exactly what 2017 has in store, but one thing we can probably count on is the increasing presence of virtual reality–no longer as this thing that’s out there that we all know is coming,...
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Shake Shack Burgers are Free in L.A. If You Do This One Thing
Are you jonesing for a Shack Shack burger but a little light until payday? The NYC burger phenom (they opened four burger joints here last year) has you covered with a genius little marketing ploy to...
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Let’s Watch The Horrifying Chuck E. Cheese Promotional Video Together
Chuck E. Cheese is about to go public and is estimated to generate over a billion dollars. The animatronic-filled pizza palace was created in 1977 by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and is now controlled...
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What Sets L.A.’s Digital Domain Apart
The butterfly effect is hard at work: In the summer of 2015, a rat drags a slice of pizza down a flight of stairs into a New York City subway station, step by careful step. Somewhere in Los Angeles, a...
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When Seeing is Feeling
In the virtual reality series theBlu, you might find yourself floating in azure waters above a brilliantly colored coral reef or surrounded by hundreds of luminous jellies or looking into the enormous...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
The industries that have sustained Los Angeles have often been conspicuous: oil derricks, phalanxes of tourists, sprawling aerospace facilities, the port’s towering gantry cranes, and the garrisoned...
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These L.A. Parks, Pools, and Beaches Have Free Wifi, the Most Important...
It’s a beautiful day outside, but you’re stuck with a pile of work that needs to get done. How do you balance the need to be a productive member of society (or screenwriter) while also getting a little...
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When Fires Rage in SoCal, This Pair of High-Flying Canadians Comes to the Rescue
Fire season is nothing to celebrate, but at least we can look forward to the dramatic display of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s aerial fleet. While converted DC-10 airliners and helicopters...
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Answering Your Burning Questions About the Tunnel Elon Musk Is Building Under...
Ambitious and occasionally controversial serial entrepreneur Elon Musk—the man behind Tesla, Hyperloop, SpaceX, PayPal, and other projects—really hates L.A. traffic. So much so that last December he...
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Above the Surface and Below, L.A. Is Still an Oil Town
Afew years ago I picked up my friend David from LAX and, bound for the Fairfax District, turned off La Tijera onto La Cienega. The fog had come in, and after we crossed Slauson, the wells of the...
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4 Oil Wells Hidden in Plain Sight in L.A.
Oil wells are hidden all over Los Angeles, some more cleverly than others. From the so-called Tower of Hope to a facade designed to look like a synagogue, here are a handful of spots where black gold...
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Could These Little Scooters Be the Future of People Moving?
Just east of the shop-lined streets of Old Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard, a narrow storefront resonates with whirring drills and clinking metal as a small group of men work on a factory line. It’s...
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How the Port of Los Angeles Is Moving Cargo—and Cleaning Up Its Act
From furniture to auto parts to electronics, roughly 40 percent of imported goods enter the U.S. through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Located in San Pedro, the L.A. operation is the...
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Can Virtual Reality Help Stop Sexual Harassment in the Workplace?
I’m a silent presence inside a tidy office, observing as one woman and two men work into the evening. The boss enters the room and he’s quickly impressed with the woman’s work. There’s something in the...
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HQ Is Giving Away Its Biggest Six-Figure Prize to Date Thanks to Warner Bros.
Chances are you’re already one of the 2.2 million people who’s been roped into playing HQ, the live mobile trivia game started by Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. But if you’re not, now’s...
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Catch a Glimpse of the First-Ever Planetary Mission to Launch From the West...
In the wee hours of Saturday, May 5—4:05 a.m., to be precise—NASA’s InSight will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, and begin its journey to Mars. This is exciting for...
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Self-Driving Vehicles Are Going to Dramatically Change L.A.’s Car Culture—and...
At the Petersen Automotive Museum’s first-ever Future of the Automobile conference on May 3, much of the discussion revolved around autonomous vehicles and how they’ll change our lives. Car culture is...
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