Sam Dean

This start-up is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors

March 5, 2021 at 4:29 p.m.

Doctors take a microscopic craft loaded with cancer-killing chemicals, inject it into the human body, and drive it to a malignant tumor to deliver its payload before making a quick...

PopID CEO John Miller demonstrates how the PopPay payment facial recognition software works, at a payment register at Lemonade on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 in Pasadena, California. PopID makes facial recognition systems for payment at restaurants and retail outlets, and for keyless entry for employees. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Forget credit cards — now you can pay with your face. Creepy or cool?

August 20, 2020 at 9:30 p.m.

A new way to pay has arrived in Los Angeles: your face. As so-called contactless payments rise in popularity during the pandemic, a Pasadena company called PopID is rolling out...

Google headquarters on Jan. 24, 2016, in Mountain View, Calif. Many tech companies in Silicon Valley are coming under scrutiny from U.S. antitrust enforcers. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS)

Why are Black and Latino people still kept out of the tech industry?

June 25, 2020 at 9:57 p.m.

It seemed like tech was turning a corner. For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data, making it difficult to pinpoint precisely how much whiter...

Shoppers rush to pick up toilet paper that had just arrived at a Costco store on March 7, 2020, in Tacoma, Washington. Within minutes, several pallets of toilet paper and paper towels were sold out as people continue to stock up amid concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus.

One less coronavirus fear: America’s toilet paper pipeline remains strong

November 18, 2020 at 4:57 p.m.

As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, Americans have taken to stores to clear out shelves of hand sanitizer, canned goods and other emergency rations. For some reason, they've also started...

Robert Shontell se encuentra parado en una calle en Sherman Oaks donde se han instalado cámaras de seguridad para leer las matrículas.

Usan cámaras inteligentes para rastrear vehículos de extraños, incluido el suyo

September 26, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

En una calle tranquila al sur de Ventura Boulevard, dos cámaras en un poste vigilan la carretera, en direcciones opuestas. A una cuadra de distancia, otro grupo de cámaras actúa...

A Ninebot Bird scooter is ridden near the beach in Venice.

Electric scooters are hip, but not invincible: Startups like Bird struggling with cash flow

May 11, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

A year ago, Bird Rides Inc. was flying high — and Silicon Valley was betting that it would keep on climbing. Thousands of the Santa Monica start-up's signature black-and-white scooters...

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to press and advertising partners in 2007.

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

August 22, 2019 at 3:33 p.m.

Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message — even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of...

For $799 and a jump in the electric bill, anyone can mine cryptocurrency

December 12, 2018 at 4:15 a.m.

When there's a gold rush, sell picks and shovels. When there's a cryptocurrency rush, the same wisdom may well hold. That’s the thinking behind a Los Angeles start-up that’s trying...

`CHUTZPAH`

August 8, 2021 at 3:15 p.m.

That report on the Business page that Exxon Corporation`s chief oil spill clean-up contractor bought one of Anchorage`s newspapers so it could provide ''positive'' news to Alaskans-now that is chutzpah!

SUGAR RAY TRIBUTE

August 8, 2021 at 4:19 p.m.

I felt a great sadness when I heard of the passing of Sugar Ray Robinson. The boxing pundits proclaim him ''the greatest ever''; to which I add, ''Amen.'' In my...

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