This L.A. Sperm Bank Is More Exclusive Than an Ivy League College
Talk about family money. According to Grand View Research, the global sperm market is valued at more than $3.5 billion and is expected to reach nearly $5 billion by 2025 thanks to improving...
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Elizabeth Holmes Isn’t Letting the Feds Keep Her from Wedded Bliss
Not to be deterred by her impending trial for wire fraud or the new HBO documentary about her—The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley—Elizabeth Holmes is still in wedding-planning mode. The New...
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Plastic Surgeons Reveal the Procedures Most Requested by Image-Obsessed...
Pamela Anderson’s Double Ds have fallen out of favor, Kim Kardashian’s ass is passé, and Kylie Jenner’s plumped pout has lost its luster—at least according to L.A.’s top cosmetic surgeons. Until...
View ArticleWill the Internet Let Olivia Jade Return to YouTube?
Olivia Jade Giannulli has 2 million YouTube subscribers, but that’s not how she became a household name. Previously known to fans for her makeup tutorials and blithe vlogs about life as a college...
View ArticleWaze Directions May Skip Certain Streets Under a New City Council Plan
A pilot program launched by L.A.’s City Council could bring big changes to the workings of directions apps like Waze and Google Maps. The city’s Department of Transportation is being directed to work...
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This Artist Is Tricking the Internet into Making Her Dreams Come True
Lately, artist Gretchen Andrew has been thinking about the people, experiences and places she wants in her future. As she does, she paints tangible elements of that dream life in swirling oil paints on...
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Why Influencers Don’t Freak Out When Instagram Makes Changes
Although she has upward of 850,000 followers, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick says she isn’t concerned about Instagram making changes. “Personally, I don’t care,” says Bosstick, the woman behind the blog and...
View ArticleAltered Nancy Pelosi Videos Are All Over Social Media—and No One Seems to...
Political social media just got even scummier. An altered video of a speech Nancy Pelosi gave Wednesday makes the House Speaker appear to be drunkenly slurring her words and generally unsteady—and one...
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Fortnite’s Most Famous Player is Taking His Own Team to Court
Over the past 30 days, users of the online streaming platform Twitch have have spent over 10,000,000 hours watching Turner “Tfue” Tenny play video games. One of the most well-known e-sports “athletes”...
View ArticleRussiagate Convict George Papadopoulos Is at the Center of a Twitter War...
Just five months out of prison for lying to the FBI about his Russian connections, former Trump fixer George Papadopoulos has found himself in a fresh new hell as a Twitter feud erupts between his...
View ArticleIf You Make Money Through an App, You Might Want to Pay Attention to This Bill
What do rideshare drivers, freelancers, and exotic dancers have in common? They’re all contract workers, which means they could all be impacted by AB 5, a groundbreaking labor bill that’s making its...
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Marcus Johns Found Viral Fame Online. Now He’s Seeking Something Different on...
Marcus Johns was not upset when Vine died. “I wanted it to go away,” says Johns, who found fame posting six-second videos on the now-defunct app. “I was tired of it. The whole last year and a half, I...
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Video Game Actors Are Still Fighting to Be Treated—and Paid—Like On-Camera...
Courtenay Taylor is the rare actor who never really has to worry about being typecast. Sipping on a glass of white wine between panels at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, she’s...
View ArticleCould Letting Drivers Communicate via LED Screen Help Quell Road Rage?
When it comes to technology improving the experience of driving, not much has changed since the advent of airbags, Bluetooths (teeth?), and Waze. But a Philadelphia-based company called MOD, which...
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How a New Batch of Apps Is Boosting the Profiles—and Fortunes—of Unlikely Celebs
Jason Shapiro has a strangely amusing new hobby. For the past few months, the 33-year-old has been booking C-list celebs through the Cameo app to make short videos in which they say random things he...
View ArticleAn Elon Musk Startup Is Developing Tech to Let People Control Computers with...
Billionaire futurist Elon Musk revealed yesterday that scientists at his secretive startup Neuralink want to perform brain surgery on paralyzed patients that would allow them to control computers with...
View ArticleHow Rude Virtual Humans Are Helping Veterans Re-enter the Job Market
In a generic-looking office, Michelle Lee sits across from me in a neat, blue button-down shirt, her black hair pulled back tightly into a bun. “OK so you’re a veteran,” she says, impatiently tapping...
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L.A.’s Resident Robots Are Pouring Drinks, Flipping Burgers, and More
Robots are everywhere in Los Angeles—hospitals, bars, malls (did no one see Chopping Mall?)—and the wave of new tech is sparking conversations about automation and job loss. But not all robots are...
View ArticleThe City’s Flawed Earthquake Alert App Is Getting an Overhaul
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that that city’s earthquake-warning app, ShakeAlertLA, is being fine-tuned after residents complained that the smartphone app failed to send out notifications...
View ArticleLocal Cops’ Newest Surveillance Tool? Your Ring Doorbell
On some level, we all know that we live in a dystopian surveillance state where any true privacy is a distant fantasy. Today’s reminder comes in the form of a revelation by The Washington Post that 400...
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