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Google’s acquisition of wearable pioneer Fitbit may be a bold plunge into health and fitness technology. But it’s also just the latest step in the internet giant’s often-halting effort to become a force in consumer hardware. Once a pure software…
Greta Thunberg, Sweden’s 16-year-old climate-change activist, joined fellow teenagers from throughout California Friday in telling a cheering crowd of hundreds at a Los Angeles rally that they can and will fight to save their planet from global warming. Thunberg, who…
The Latest on the Halloween night shooting in California that killed 4 people (all times local): 12 a.m. A fifth person has died as a result of a Halloween night shooting at an Airbnb rental in Northern California. The Contra…
Crews fought a pitched battle against the last remaining large wildfire in Southern California as the stubborn flames threatened nearly 2,000 homes and other buildings. The fire that erupted on a hilltop northeast of Los Angeles headed for what would…
The difficulty with accepting the common, popular, and mundane notions of American history is that, most often, they’re simply wrong. This isn’t solely an American problem, of course, as all nations would rather recount an imagined history than one filled…
The Gray Lady has learned to code. Last week, the New York Times published a high-tech interactive map of Syria, which, given the newspaper’s usual stodginess, felt a bit like watching your grandmother turn on the oven with her iPad.…
