The growth of social After Elon Musk’s massive multibillion-dollar purchase of Twitter and the commotion it’s causing in the tech world, here’s a look at social media’s history It might seem like social media has been around forever, but it’s relatively new tech, with a major boom in 2004. Nice to tweet you What began…
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State officials on Friday cleared the final major regulatory hurdle for the Doheny desalination plant, which aims to use the ocean to help shore up drinking water supplies for drought-ridden Southern California. The California State Lands Commission unanimously granted South Coast Water District a 20-year lease for land off Doheny State Beach, in Dana Point.…
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Iconic Southern California punk band Social Distortion has replaced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for KROQ-FM’s Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 10, Social D frontman Mike Ness revealed Friday. Ness made the announcement during a call into the Klein/Ally Show on KROQ-FM/106.7 early Friday. Social Distortion is currently at the start of a run of shows…
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Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges are possible if Moscow and Washington find a compromise. Putin spoke a day after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for WNBA star and two-time Olympian Brittney Griner. Asked after a summit in Kyrgyzstan whether other prisoners could be…
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The first official “Game of Thrones” fan convention debuted at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday with modest crowds for the top-notch programming the day provided. The Game Of Thrones Official Fan Convention – like Arya Stark in Season One – was small but mighty. You could sit on the Iron Throne from the…
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I’m not a fan of all this newfangled A.I. gimmickry going on, this trend of asking the machines to create our images, graphics and poems for us. Maybe it’s just me, but I wasn’t rooting for Skynet in the “Terminator” movies. And so I’m grateful to the Clippers for so clearly illustrating the difference between…
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An ex-Laguna Beach police officer pleaded guilty Friday, Dec. 9 to holding a gun to a fellow officer’s head during a night of partying. He was immediately sentenced to a day in jail and 20 days of Caltrans work. Luke Christian Gilbertson pleaded guilty to a felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and…
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PHILADELPHIA — All any team ever asks is to fight for 48 minutes. On Friday night, down big, the Lakers never stopped fighting, punching an 18-point deficit all the way down to zero. It was the five minutes of overtime where all the steam ran out. The Lakers (10-15) missed nine consecutive shots in extra…
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Six years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown tricked California voters into passing a ballot measure that, he said, would make it easier for non-violent felons to earn paroles and thus ease the state prison system’s severe overcrowding. Brown and other supporters of Proposition 57 spent millions of dollars on the campaign. “All of us learn. I’ve…
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By LEKAN OYEKANMI and ERIC TUCKER SAN ANTONIO — Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm. Griner’s status as an openly gay Black woman, her prominence in women’s basketball…
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