For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore. That trip has been cut short. Coastal erosion has been eating away at the beach in San Clemente, known for nearly a century as a “Spanish village
On Thursday morning, a top executive at self-driving truck developer PlusAI received an unexpected congratulatory text message from an acquaintance. “I have been proud of you for your adventure and success at Plus. Just saw two of your trucks near my work place! :)” the message said. But PlusAI’s trucks weren’t supposed to be near
Keith Rabois has spent most of his 13-year career in venture capital associated with Khosla Ventures’ longtime home in Menlo Park, California. But that’s changing. Speaking Thursday night at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in New York’s West Village, Rabois confirmed that Khosla Ventures is opening its first-ever office outside Sand Hill Road. The new outpost will
Part of LG’s xboom collaboration with producer, Black Eyed Peas star, and tech obsessive will.i.am, the Stage 501 is a mighty 25.8-pound party starter. Its 2.2-channel setup combines twin 5.25-inch woofers with two 2.5-inch full-range drivers. Together they’re capable of 160 watts on battery or 220 watts plugged in. In simpler terms: It easily filled
A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist
The battery lasts for 40 minutes, which is almost as good as your average stick vacuum. It’s fairly powerful with 115 air-watts of suction and a spin speed of 110,000 rpm; the next cheapest Dyson vacuums have 150 air-watts of power. Most people don’t need that much, but if your car has fluffier rugs, or
