Elon Musk has long sought to augment his Silicon Valley celebrity with gamer cred, professing both skill and passion for a medium favored by tech geeks. A couple of years ago, he went so far as to explain why strategy video games are superior to chess. Yet his latest attempts …
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For more than six years, filmmaker Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann embedded with a crew of wildland firefighters in California whose expertise is working with large, high-priority fires. Referred to as Hotshots, these specialists, managed by a band of agencies including the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, undergo intensive training …
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The Palisades fire, which started the morning of Jan. 7 and is the largest of the four blazes ravaging Los Angeles County, has moved east, forcing evacuations in Brentwood and parts of Encino. On Saturday, the fire spread to Mandeville Canyon. The flames’ direction headed into “a heavily populated area …
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The Palisades fire, which started the morning of Jan. 7 and is the largest of the four blazes ravaging Los Angeles County, has moved east, forcing evacuations in Brentwood and parts of Encino. On Saturday, the fire spread to Mandeville Canyon. The flames’ direction headed into “a heavily populated area …
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When Max Baumgarten and Penelope Gazin first learned the catastrophic Eaton fire had gutted their 1940s adobe brick home on the edge of the San Gabriel mountains in Altadena, California, they couldn’t fully absorb it. A neighbor sent them a video of their ravaged cul-de-sac, but they watched it in …
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Amika Mota was drenched, bone-tired, and shaking after her first-ever pump and roll, a fire-fighting technique where the fire truck creeps toward the blaze as personnel wield the massive hose alongside it. It was just her and five other women — along with the fire chief — against a brutal …
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The video game industry is in the middle of a crisis. Budgets for big releases are ballooning out of control with games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020) costing up to $700 million to produce. The developer workforce has also been ravaged, with dozens of studios closing, …
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The Securities Exchange Commission ordered Vince McMahon to pay $1.7 million after charging the former WWE CEO with failing to disclose two hush-money settlements to two women who formerly worked for the wrestling company. McMahon must reimburse his former company $1.3 million and pay a $400,000 civil penalty stemming from …
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As vast swaths of Los Angeles County burned this week, with uncontrolled wildfires killing at least 10 people and destroying upward of 9,000 structures, residents and politicians understandably looked to assign blame. And in a drought-afflicted state where access to water is a particularly contentious issue, many argued that mismanagement …
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Paris Hilton has reflected on the loss her home in the ongoing destructive fires in Southern California. The reality TV star shared a video of the wreckage on social media, writing, “I’m standing here in what used to be our home, and the heartbreak is truly indescribable.” “When I first …
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