Author: Artificial Intelligence

Prosecutors announced last week that a man was sentenced to death in connection with the brutal 2019 murder of an elderly woman who was previously employed as a construction worker. Heber Enoch Diaz, 33, of Pasadena, was hired in 2019 to work at 76-year-old Chong Jen Tsai’s Arcadia home. According to prosecutors, Tsai committed a robbery at her home in March of the same year while she was still in office. The next month he returned to the house to commit another robbery, although he no longer worked there. At that time, I confronted Mr. Tsai in the garage of…

As firefighters ramp up containment of a devastating wildfire in Ventura County, new access to burned areas reveals more damage from the fire that exploded last week during an unusual wind event. Officials said Tuesday that 207 structures, many of them homes, were destroyed after more than a dozen teams inspected about 900 homes across the 20,630-acre fire site. This is an increase of more than 60 homes from Monday’s tally. An additional 90 structures were also damaged, according to the latest tally from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Ventura County Agriculture Commissioner Colin Bell said officials…

NEW YORK (AP) – A judge on Tuesday delayed a key ruling in President-elect Donald Trump’s hush-money lawsuit, as his lawyers argued it should be dismissed in the interest of managing the country. New York Judge Juan M. Marchan was scheduled to rule Tuesday on an earlier request to throw out Trump’s historic conviction on other grounds — the highest court on presidential immunity this summer. This is because of the ruling. Instead, Marchan asked Trump’s lawyers to halt proceedings and issue a ruling so prosecutors could give their views on how prosecutors should respond in light of last week’s…

Anyone in Los Angeles will be able to digitally hail a Waymo robotaxi starting Tuesday, but don’t expect self-driving cars to hit the highways. Waymo announced Tuesday it would launch its Waymo One service in the county, but vehicle use would be limited to roadways, and the startup, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been testing vehicles equipped with sensors for months. It’s here. This service is accessible 24 hours a day through the app. Los Angeles officials are skeptical and are calling for increased vehicle safety oversight as future growth looms and unions raise concerns about job…

After a short break over the weekend, strong winds are back in Southern California. “You can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it,” KTLA 5’s Carlos Herrera said simply about the winds in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday morning. “Northerly winds” will be felt across the region, the National Weather Service said during a regional forecast discussion. Wind gusts could reach 40 mph in some locations, the NWS said. KTLA 5 Meteorologist Henry DiCarlo reiterated that wind speeds are likely to be highest in Ventura County and western Los Angeles County, where wildfires are currently burning. Other…

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced further job cuts on Tuesday, citing “ongoing funding challenges.” The layoffs will affect 325 employees, or about 5% of JPL’s workforce, and will affect the space agency’s technical, business and support employees. JPL Director Laurie Leshin said the layoffs will take place Wednesday, when all JPL employees were told to work from home. Lesin said the number of planned layoffs is “lower than expected months ago, thanks in part to the hard work of so many people across JPL.” “While the employee evaluations carried out as part of this process were extensive and thorough and…

Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, NWA and Alanis Morissette are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, an eclectic group of rap, rock, hip-hop and pop artists. Trailblazers are among the nominees for the Class of 2025. On the ballot will be Bryan Adams, whose radio classics include “Summer of ’69” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?,” and Mike from the Beach Boys, 25 years after the band’s founder Brian Wilson.・Love is also participating in the vote. . David Gates, co-lead singer of pop music group Bread, is also looking for…

But the Nov. 5 election revealed that voters in the region have limits to their compassion. Motivated by pent-up frustration over property crime and homelessness, and a sense that San Francisco and Oakland have lost control of their streets, Bay Area voters went to the right in last week’s elections, ousting both cities’ mayors and ousting them. Rejected a small number of leftists. Wing candidate. And in a stunning rebuke to the progressive movement for criminal justice reform that the region once championed, a majority of voters in all nine Bay Area counties voted to impose harsher penalties for habitual…

The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday announced details about its pending cell phone ban on school campuses starting in January 2025. The district’s presentation to the school board said LAUSD’s policy is in line with the Cell Phone Ban Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, which requires all school districts to develop policies that limit or ban the use of smartphones. It was shown that Starting with the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year, students will no longer be able to use cell phones on campus during class hours. This means you need to turn off your…

Is it a toaster? Is that a pill on the wheel? No, it’s Zoox’s funny looking robotaxis. It’s the latest fully autonomous vehicle on the streets of California.Zoox’s self-driving cars began operating in San Francisco’s SoMa district this week and are expected to compete with robotaxis designed by Waymo, which began offering ride-hailing services to the public in San Francisco and Los Angeles earlier this year. But it’s not complete yet. For now, Zoox’s unmanned trips around SoMa are for testing and research purposes only. “Since 2017, our test vehicles have been driving autonomously on the streets of San Francisco…