The self-driving taxi company Waymo launched in Los Angeles in November, bringing roughly 100 autonomous vehicles to neighborhoods from Santa Monica to West Hollywood.

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San Francisco tech founder Alex Beckman and his wife, Valerie Lau, were arrested last week and charged with defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service.

According to the Mercury News, data shows San Jose has the lowest firefighter staffing level when compared with Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility.

As for Kelly, he said they have been getting a lot more inquiries about how to register for alerts after witnessing the horrific wildfires across Los Angeles County. "I think more and more we're ...

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The actor, who played Dario Hernandez on the long-running soap, was discovered by police at his Los Angeles home on Jan. 16.

As a result, maintaining a strong presence on the West Coast is essential for any legacy airline, the type of carrier that is looking to primarily target business travelers and derive a significant amount of their profits from this sector.