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• Annoyed Internet users struggle to manage passwords

  By Editor on February 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  SAN FRANCISCO – Losing Web site passwords causes more aggravation than misplacing car keys according to one recent survey, while creating an easy, secure password management system continues to elude most Internet users, experts warned. “In our new digital lifestyles,… Read More ›

• Experts warn Radicals may become ‘weaponized’

  By Editor on February 20, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  SAN FRANCISCO – A new line of enhanced eyewear continues to raise eyebrows across the tech industry because of the ‘extrasensory’ perception the sunglasses afford users and the dangers they may pose non-users. With Google and Bionic Vision Australia pushing… Read More ›

• Limo driver mistakes synced ads for ‘singularity’

  By Editor on February 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  GRANADA HILLS – A limousine driver crashed into his neighbor’s living room Sunday morning, excited to share a series of coincidences that he mistook as proof that computer consciousness had superseded human consciousness. Witnesses said Ralfi Amar, 47, a contracted… Read More ›

• Guest commentary: Business as usual amid unusual gas leak

  By Editor on February 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  As a resident who both lives and works in Granada Hills within miles of the Aliso Canyon/Porter Ranch methane gas leak, I am concerned about the general lack of appreciation for and comprehensive response to this disaster and the damage… Read More ›

• Cyber-attack prompts beer shortage, panic

  By Editor on January 19, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – Experts warned that a cyber-attack against the largest beer brewers last week has led to a dramatic decrease in the amount of ale projected to be produced this year and prompted a run on beer that has… Read More ›

• Guest commentary: Smart phones are making students stupid

  By Editor on December 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Recently my American Literature high school students studied plot reversals, the unexpected twists that occur in fiction. We read and analyzed “Solipsist,” a one-page story published in 1954 by Fredric Brown. In the story, a character named Walter B. Jehovah… Read More ›

• Author’s ‘ghost’ reminds students to floss, be kind

  By Editor on November 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  WESTWOOD – A college crowd that gathered to watch a late-night comedy film said the show included two appearances by the deceased writer Kurt Vonnegut, one of which greatly exceeded expectations. Students present at the University of California Los Angeles… Read More ›

• ‘No gas taxation without representation,’ say Eco-Socialists

  By Editor on November 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  SAN FRANCISCO – Rush hour traffic into the city came to a standstill longer than usual Monday morning thanks to a giant disembodied head of the Statue of Liberty and protesters shackled to it who demanded change to United States’… Read More ›

• Black ‘superhero’ mistaken for public nuisance

  By Editor on October 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – A masked vigilante who some said has exceptional abilities escaped police custody yesterday after being accused of committing a robbery he claimed he stopped. An African-American male, identified as Dwight D. Jacobs, 38, engaged a robbery suspect… Read More ›

• ‘Sexual reproduction’ activists seek ban on artificial womb

  By Editor on October 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  WASHINGTON – Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Capitol today demanding a ban on an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow without a female body, allowing stem cell tissue, organs and perhaps human beings to be cloned in a lab. For years,… Read More ›