Technology
Column: The worst tech of 2023 (an anti-gift guide)
It’s the holidays, and you know what that means: an endless stream of wishlists, gift guides, and splashy sales of products competing for our cash. Since this is the...
Into the metal-verse: Why Avenged Sevenfold is doing virtual reality concerts
In a nondescript Culver City warehouse, members of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold wear protective booties over their shoes to avoid scuffing the floor-to-ceiling green screen. The surroundings couldn’t...
Leaked document offers glimpse into how Amazon amasses influence in the Inland Empire
In the first two years of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture’s existence, e-commerce giant Amazon.com was happy to contribute funds to the much-lauded Riverside facility.But...
This year’s most poignant and powerful narratives were in video games
We still too often talk about video games as escapes — little playthings that are big business but often considered not as serious as their media peers. And yet...
Column: The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI
Quick, name five classic American magazines.Did you say Sports Illustrated? I did. And I’m not even a sports guy. But if you’re of a certain age, you know Sports...
This new AI-powered drone is both a bomb and a boomerang
What if a missile could jet toward a moving target — and then fly back home to try again if it missed?That’s the idea behind the Roadrunner, a novel...
Top tickets for first Biden Hollywood fundraiser since end of strikes approach $1 million
Next week’s Hollywood fundraiser for President Biden, his first in-person soiree here since the end of the entertainment-industry strikes dried up the traditional wellspring of campaign money, is expected...
Opinion: Can Hollywood’s new SAG-AFTRA contract hold AI at bay?
After months of strikes by the writers’ and screen actors’ unions — and billions of dollars in losses to California’s economy — Hollywood is back to work. Sort of....
