[aggregation-styles] Express Google has started to warn users that their Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive content could be deleted unless they follow the latest rules. The new alert has been issued in an email, which explains that Google's new storage policies will be coming into force from next year....
Police Drones Are Starting To Think for Themselves, City of Clovis Seeks Waiver To Fly Beyond Operators’ Line of Sight
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Drone as First Responder programs in places like Redondo Beach and Clovis, Calif., are seeking waivers that would allow them to fly beyond the operators’ line of sight. In Clovis, the Police Department has found that its drones tend to overheat at the height...
Late Punk Music Exec’s Bunker-Style Home Near Bakersfield on Market for $2 Million
[aggregation-styles] MSN Money Barely a month after his death from complications resulting from a long battle with Lewy body dementia, Bob Biggs, founder of the legendary L.A.-based punk label Slash Records, has had his idiosyncratic and remote compound in Tehachapi, listed by his wife Kim for $2 million. Biggs was...
Sherman Oaks Restaurant Owner Shares Video of Outdoor Catering Setup as Her Business Faces Shutdown
[aggregation-styles] FOX 11 Los Angeles SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - The echo of “let us work” could be heard a few blocks away in the usually quiet street where Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl lives. A few dozen people turned into at least 50, as owners of various types of...
Jupiter and Saturn Will Align to Create the First ‘Christmas Star’ in Nearly 800 Years
[aggregation-styles] Pop Sugar As 2020 comes to a close, the solar system has decided to grace us with a cosmic Christmas miracle that hasn't been witnessed in nearly 800 years. On Dec. 21 (aka the December solstice), Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in the night sky that they'll...
Olympic Champion Rafer Johnson, Who Also Helped Apprehend Robert Kennedy’s Assassin, Has Died at Age 86
[aggregation-styles] CBS News Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday at age 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth. No cause of...
Monulparivir: The Drug That ‘Completely’ Stops the Spread of Coronavirus In 24 Hours
[aggregation-styles] Entrepreneur The COVID-19 vaccine may spell the end of the pandemic, but while mass vaccination is not available it is vital to stop community transmission. The new antiviral drug MK-4482 / EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, has managed to suppress "completely" the transmission of the coronavirus in just 24 hours ,...
Why mRNA Vaccines Like Those Being Made to Treat Coronavirus Are a Quantum Leap for Biotech
[aggregation-styles] Salon If the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines successfully put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, as they seem poised to do, we will owe our salvation to the development of mRNA vaccines — an unprecedented, novel vaccine technology that may revolutionize how vaccines are made. Indeed, an mRNA vaccine...
California Exits Give Newsom Rare Chance to Pick 3 High-Profile Leaders
[aggregation-styles] Politico OAKLAND, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a perfect storm of political opportunity now that Xavier Becerra's departure gives him the chance to fill a third high-profile statewide office and shape the state's power structure for years. Ambitious Democrats and their constituencies were already lobbying the governor...
NYT: Biden Picks California Attorney General Becerra to Lead Health and Human Services
[aggregation-styles] New York Times President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, a former congressman who is now the Democratic attorney general of California, as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, ending a politically delicate search that brought complaints from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about a...