A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
“While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice.” — waymo.com/blog/2025/12...
Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is in touch with law enforcement
As police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire …
A look at challenges LA faces as it tries to remain a major tech hub; CB Insights says VC funding of LA-based startups totaled $6.9B in 2023, down 73% from 2021
A few thoughts from a tech company that pre-dated, and now seems to post-date, the beach: … Agnes M. Sokol : The truth is, LA has always been, and will always be, a one industry town. Hate cities lik...
TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy
and Some Want to Ban It Entirely Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times : Democrat Senator Michael Bennet calls on Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores Makena Kelly / The Verge : Apple and ...
CA appellate court rules Amazon is responsible for the safety of third-party products it sells, rejecting Amazon's claim of merely connecting buyers and sellers
merchants — and can't hide behind their connecting-the-world technology to shield them from responsibility for distributing unsafe goods.” https://www.latimes.com/... Glenn Fleishman / @glennf : Maybe...
A look at the Hype House “collab house”, a collective of 19 young influencers renting an LA mansion, whose TikTok group handle amassed 3M followers in ~10 days
Another Sunday, Another Naive Weekly … Audra Schroeder / The Daily Dot : The TikTok Hype House is now a thing—here's what you need to know Tweets: @justupthepike : the future of McMansions is that Tik...
As unionized dockworkers protest automation in LA ports, truckers welcome the port robots which reduce unpaid time they spend waiting for the cargo to load
Day after day, Walter Diaz, an immigrant truck driver from El Salvador, steers his 18-wheeler toward the giant ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Tweets: @margotroosevelt , @latimes , @paulpage , @m...
A look at the tug of war between the data driven tech team and the relationship-oriented Hollywood team at Netflix
As the company plunges deeper into originals, its L.A. wing is doing the once-unthinkable: overriding the metrics — Netflix Inc.'s executives were torn. Tweets: @ledgerstatus , @memles , @wsj , @ash...
A look at how a team of animators at Snap create 3D Bitmoji animations for an AR Snapchat experience by overlaying them on the camera's field of view
every user's experience is different. Here's a storyboard from early on in the development of a 3D Bitmoji animation. (4/5) pic.twitter.com/63GNJuX4Ds Reggie Ugwu / @uugwuu : Companies like Apple, Goo...
Amazon Brings Restaurant Delivery To L.A., Will Expand To All Prime Now Markets In U.S.
Amazon's debut of its restaurant delivery service through its one-hour delivery app Prime Now, is no longer looking like an experiment. Since its debut in Seattle this September …