Cyberattack Hits U.S. Newspapers, Delaying Printing and Deliveries
A cyberattack affected newspapers across the country and delayed the Saturday editions of several prominent…
'Like Riding on a Dirt Road': First Reviews of Elon Musk's Underground Tunnel Are Disappointing
Elon Musk’s Boring Company unveiled its latest transportation experiment in Los Angeles last night. The Loop, not to be…
Newly Released FBI File Shows LA Times Publisher During WWII Was Buddies With Nazis
The Chandler family spent over a century helping to build Los Angeles with the town’s newspaper of record, the LA Times.…
The Reinvented Los Angeles Times Focuses In On L.A.'s 300 Neighborhoods
Los Angeles is a big place—400 square miles, 88 separate cities—and it's rare that what constitutes news in one corner…
The NSA's Been Spying on Every Single Call, Text, and Email in Iraq
A couple weeks ago, we learned from leaked documents that the NSA has the capability to record an entire country's…
A Robot Was The First To Report On The L.A. Earthquake
This past Monday, the Los Angeles Times was the first media outlet to report on the 4.7 magnitude tremblor that struck…
America's First 'Wireless Newspaper' Killed Catalina's Carrier Pigeons
If you lived on the small Southern California island of Catalina at the turn of the century, news was hard to come by.…
What futurists in 1988 imagined Los Angeles would be like in 2013
With the year 2013 a quarter of a century away, the Los Angeles Times in 1988 asked 30 futurists and other experts what…
Garco the Robot Retires (1961)
Lately I've been obsessed with finding the current location of 1950's robot star Garco. Garco appeared on numerous TV…
Outer Space Furniture (1964)
OFFICE FOR OUTER SPACE features chairs with push-button comfort control and walnut-topped desk which is anchored to the…