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California’s Sierra Nevada on Monday began digging out from a monster blizzard that dumped several feet of snow on the mountain range and shuttered ski resorts from Lake Tahoe to Mammoth.The massive storm shuttered Highway 395 from Southern California to Mammoth Mountain and Interstate 80 to the northern Lake Tahoe area for much of the weekend because of whiteout conditions. The California Department of Transportation on Monday was able to reopen a key stretch of Highway 395 between Mammoth and northwest of Bishop.…

Intel needs some big customers for its chip foundry business. But it needs to get its own house in order first. Both…

The goal of a documentary is dynamic storytelling. In the past, music documentaries like Hip-Hop Evolution, Fight the Power, and Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy have accomplished that goal, leading audiences to ask better questions. Spotify’s RapCaviar Presents docuseries accomplishes that by going past the surface-level analysis of rap as just a youth genre and examining it as a deep reflection of power, progress, and ways Black artists are still regularly left in the wake.The series has a clear-cut formula for the artists it…

via 20th Century Fox Despite both properties being owned by the same studio and residing in an industry where franchises are of the utmost importance, it took a remarkable 25 years for Alien vs. Predator to make it to the big screen. When it did, it would be fair to say the wait absolutely wasn’t worth it. The iconic sci-fi creatures first squared off in a 1989 comic book series, which was then followed by novelizations. Predator 2 dropped the first real hint that a live-action version was on the table with an…

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. is standing its ground against an activist investor pushing for a quick and wide-ranging overhaul of the country’s biggest freight broker as the company battles declining freight demand and growing competition. Executives said on an earnings call this week that they are focused on a broad and thorough search for a new chief executive and that they aren’t working on selling C.H. Robinson’s international freight forwarding business, a central goal of investor…

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan ‘s governor expressed confidence that he could prevail in a standoff with markets over his cap on government bond yields, but some analysts remained skeptical.The bank on Wednesday dashed market expectations for another policy change and maintained its cap for the yield on 10-year Japanese government bonds at 0.5% after it raised the ceiling on Dec. 20 from 0.25%. Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda denied that the central bank he has led for nearly a…

The Edge itself is the technically just the tablet portion, while the surrounding controller section is the Razer Kishi V2 Pro. RazerRazer's already-revealed Edge handheld was once again the star of the show, with the company providing a few more details on the Wi-Fi only and 5G-equipped versions. We now know the full spec sheet includes a 6.8" AMOLED display with a resolution of 2400x1080 and a 144Hz refresh rate for quicker responsiveness. It also revealed that the unit will be powered by the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1…

Scientists in China researching advanced treatments for a common form of hair loss have found success through a novel microneedle patch, which was used to regenerate hair in bald mice. The device works by tackling oxidative stress that impacts on follicles, with the result being thicker and denser hair coverage than what is possible through commonly used treatments.The research focuses on the most common type of hair loss, androgenetic alopecia. Oxidative stress is thought to be a key player in this condition, which can…

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. It’s your favorite boy band of Ben Oreskes and Matt Hamilton with a great deal of help from Julia Wick. Los Angeles is still sorting through the rubble after a leaked recording of elected officials making racist and other incendiary remarks took a sledgehammer to its civic institutions. The first step on the path to some semblance of stability came Tuesday with the election of Paul Krekorian as council president. Many expected the next step…

The Amazon Labor Union, which made history in April by unionizing the first Amazon warehouse in the US, lost its latest campaign today, at a facility in Schodack, New York. Workers voted 406 to 206 against joining the union, the second loss out of ALU’s three unionization campaigns at Amazon warehouses.The result is a setback for workers seeking more say at Amazon, which is a staunch opponent of unionization and has spent months challenging the sole successful campaign, in Staten Island.“We’re proud of the brave workers…