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• LA's roads are among the deadliest in the US with 337 deaths in 2023.
• Pedestrians and cyclists are disproportionately affected.
• Measure HLA, on the March 5th ballot, aims to enforce LA's Mobility Plan and enhance street safety

If you've enjoyed playing Alan Wake 2 over the last few months, you're far from alone. Remedy Entertainment announced that Alan Wake 2 had sold 1.3 million units since its October 2023 release — making it the developer's fastest-selling game. Alan Wake 2 sold three times as many digital copies over its first two months as fellow Remedy game Control did during its first four months. 

The high sales

Google is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that allows the company’s software to call a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait on hold, and then notify you when there’s a real human being available for you to speak to. The test, which is available now as a Sear

Apple is working on an artificial intelligence-based tool that could help developers create apps for its products, a new report claims.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has been working on this software for a year, and it will be a part of the next major version of the tech giant's programming software Xcode. It could launch "as early as this year," the report says.

Xcode is Apple's

• Amber Smith, 27, went into the tech industry after college. 
• But she was laid off twice in the space of a year in the sector.
• She said she's made good money in tech, but it's a tough industry.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Amber Smith, a 27-year-old from Des Moines

Over the past week, an app called Kimi curiously outranked well-known streaming services, such as Netflix and Prime Video, in the App Store's list of top free entertainment apps. Now, Apple has pulled the application... most likely because it gave users access to pirated movies. As Wired reports, Kimi was disguised as an app that tests your eyesight by making you play spot the difference in

• Emery Bowles quit his job in the US and moved to Japan to teach English in 2008.
• Bowles found life in Japan safe and beautiful, despite language barriers and cultural differences.
• He and his wife plan to keep moving between Japan and the US to expose their son to both cultures.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Emery

• Keida Dervishi, 21, chose to start an embroidery business with her mom instead of going to college.
• She started selling embroidered products on her Etsy shop at 17 but orders dried up. 
• Consistently posting on TikTok and customization led to her business finally taking off. 

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation

• I flew on Air India's legacy long-haul economy product from Delhi to Newark, New Jersey.
• The television and the USB port on my seat were broken, making for a rough 15 hours.
• Customers have better cabins to look forward to as Air India's new management

• Gig workers often have their accounts deactivated, even if they've done nothing wrong.
• But through an obscure clause in many companies' contracts, workers can get their accounts back.
• Here are the top tips for getting reactivated from people who deliver for Instacart and Uber Eats.

It's a terrifying moment for

• Problems for the US commercial real estate sector seem to be getting worse — and spreading.
• Steeper interest payments, tighter bank lending, and declining asset values have slammed the sector.
• Some bold buyers plan to capitalize on the chaos by scooping up bargains.

The tremors rattling US commercial real estate are spreading to other countries and sectors, and threaten to

It almost sounds like a challenge: Can you make a feature length movie with only one on-screen actor, one location, and a budget of less than half a million?

Written by Lucy Campbell and shot by Matt Vesely, eerie sci-fi mystery Monolith exists within these potentially tricky parameters. Almost the entire movie takes place in a modern, isolated house in the rolling Adelaide Hills, South Australia