Los Angeles County health officials issued an exposure warning on Saturday after a traveler infected with measles visited Universal Studios and several other locations in the county between March 30 and April 1. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a news release that it received notification from the California Department of Public Health about a non-resident traveler who visited nearly a dozen locations during those three days, most of them in Universal City and at the Sheraton Hotel on West Century Boulevard near the airport. Los Angeles International. The individual visited the following locations, according to…
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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, looks at the coffins of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital, Damascus, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, April 4, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader Wana News Agency | Via ReutersIran on Saturday launched attacks against Israel, according to US officials, escalating long-standing tensions between the two countries that have the potential to ignite a regional war.“Iran has begun an air attack against Israel,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement on Saturday.…
Washington – In response to a deadly attack earlier this month, Iran on Saturday launched “dozens” of drones toward Israel, the Israeli military said.Israel is now expected to respond militarily, although it is unclear how strong it will be. It may take several hours for the drones to reach their intended targets, the identity of which remains unclear. Attacks from Iranian territory into Israel would represent a major escalation in the regional war.President Biden cut short his weekend in Delaware and rushed back to the White House, where he was joined by a team of national security advisers who were…
Hey guys, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's regular newsletter recapping the past few days in tech. Google's annual enterprise-focused development conference, Google Cloud Next, dominated the headlines — and we got big coverage of the event. But it wasn't the only thing afoot (see: stunning eclipse). Lorenzo wrote about how hackers stole over 340,000 Social Security numbers from government consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA). It took GMA nine months to determine the extent of the breach and notify victims; So far, it's not clear why. Elsewhere, Sarah got the story into Spotify's custom AI playlists, which allow…
A cold spring storm system moving into Southern California on Saturday is expected to bring light rain by 3 p.m. followed by a quarter to a half inch of rain through Sunday.“The latest storm total appears to be about a quarter inch to 1 1/2 inches [inches] “Mountain areas are the hardest hit,” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld of the National Weather Service's Oxnard station.Snow is expected to fall on mountains above 6,000 feet, with up to 10 inches falling on the highest peaks and up to an inch of dust falling on the grapevine through Sunday morning.Temperatures remained stuck in…
Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” The previous version of Airchat was Released last year, but the team — led by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Tinder product executive Brian Norgard — rebuilt the app and relaunched it on iOS and Android yesterday. Currently, Airchat is invite-only and is ranked #27 social network on the Apple App Store. Visually, Airchat should look fairly familiar and intuitive, with the ability to follow other users, scroll through a feed of posts, and then reply to, like, and share those posts. The difference is that…
In obstetrics AI boom, data is the new oil. So why not be able to sell your own products? From major tech companies to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio, and more to data brokers, all in the pursuit of training more capable (and legally defensible) AI-powered products. Shutterstock has deals with Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple to supply millions of images to train models, while OpenAI has signed agreements with several news organizations to train its models on news archives. In many cases, the individual creators and owners of that data have never seen a dime…
When josh silverman He started shopping around the idea for his methane-eating microbe startup, Windfall Bio, eight years ago, and the market wasn't ready yet. “No one cares about methane,” he said. Instead, companies focused on reducing their carbon emissions. But after a few years, the market began to emerge. Menlo Park-based Windfall Bio has raised a $28 million Series A round to expand its commercialization efforts. The round was led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Incite Ventures and Positive Ventures, among others, as well as existing investors, including Mayfield. Windfall works with industries that…
Shopping bags in front of the Macy's Inc. flagship store. In the Herald Square district of New York, US, on Monday, November 13, 2023. Holiday sales in the United States will grow at a slower pace this year amid economic headwinds such as higher interest rates, the National Retail Federation said. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTony Spring was already working against the clock to convert Messi around.Now, the CEO will have two new faces on the department retailer's board, as he considers whether to stake his vision or sell the nearly 166-year-old retailer to activist investors.The board appointments,…
Good morning, and welcome to Los Angeles at the Register. It's Rebecca Ellis, bringing tales of brewing budgets from Los Angeles County, and my colleagues David Zaniser, Jenna Peterson, and Dakota Smith, with updates from City Hall.It's been a year since Los Angeles County's top budget official warned her bosses of the day they would have to go into debt for a few extra billion dollars.This money was not intended for modern hospitals or affordable housing complexes. It will go to thousands of people who, thanks to a change in state law, can for the first time file a lawsuit…