#lax — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lax, aggregated by home.social.
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ABC7: American Airlines flight returns to LAX for emergency landing
"...The airline said that an indicator light went off stating that the plane would not be able to detect hazardous weather ahead, prompting pilots to turn the aircraft around...."
https://abc7.com/post/american-airlines-flight-returns-lax-emergency-landing/19677567/
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ABC7: American Airlines flight returns to LAX for emergency landing
"...The airline said that an indicator light went off stating that the plane would not be able to detect hazardous weather ahead, prompting pilots to turn the aircraft around...."
https://abc7.com/post/american-airlines-flight-returns-lax-emergency-landing/19677567/
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The YouTuber Who Exposed the LAX People Mover Fiasco
#LocalNews #News #LAX #Travelhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/youtuber-expose-lax-people-mover-1236664062/
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The YouTuber Who Exposed the LAX People Mover Fiasco
#LocalNews #News #LAX #Travelhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/youtuber-expose-lax-people-mover-1236664062/
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I keep listening to and reading things about LA because I lived there in the late 50's and early 60's, and I'm scheduled to be in LAX for THREE HOURS in a couple of months 🙃. If the airlines collapse then, I guess I'll try to hike to Santa Monica to a coffee shop by the beach or something, that place I've read about with that pastry I don't remember. Always prepared.
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I keep listening to and reading things about LA because I lived there in the late 50's and early 60's, and I'm scheduled to be in LAX for THREE HOURS in a couple of months 🙃. If the airlines collapse then, I guess I'll try to hike to Santa Monica to a coffee shop by the beach or something, that place I've read about with that pastry I don't remember. Always prepared.
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Planespotting #StreetPhotography #LAX #WestchesterParkway
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Per LA County Public Health: Individuals who were at Gate 206 on July 16 from 9:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. and in the corresponding baggage claim area from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. may have been exposed to measles.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/42173dd
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Per LA County Public Health: Individuals who were at Gate 206 on July 16 from 9:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. and in the corresponding baggage claim area from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. may have been exposed to measles.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/42173dd
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TWO BINS. TSA took everything out of my bag 1 by 1 & laid them out in across 2 bins, plus the bin I already had with my laptop, display, mouse & 3 cables.
They threw away my biodegradable 'potatoware' utensil package (fork/knife/napkin) cuz apparently my potatoware knife is a 'threat'.
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TWO BINS. TSA took everything out of my bag 1 by 1 & laid them out in across 2 bins, plus the bin I already had with my laptop, display, mouse & 3 cables.
They threw away my biodegradable 'potatoware' utensil package (fork/knife/napkin) cuz apparently my potatoware knife is a 'threat'.
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Gone But Not Forgotten - (Also Available In Yellow)
(Details In The AltText)
#AltText #NoAi #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #CamelCase #Aviation #Aircraft #Airplane #Plane #Planes #Avgeek #Planespotting #LAX #LA #LosAngeles #California #US #USA #Airport #Airports #SpiritAirlines #Spirit #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome
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Gone But Not Forgotten - (Also Available In Yellow)
(Details In The AltText)
#AltText #NoAi #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #CamelCase #Aviation #Aircraft #Airplane #Plane #Planes #Avgeek #Planespotting #LAX #LA #LosAngeles #California #US #USA #Airport #Airports #SpiritAirlines #Spirit #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome
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Public Health Confirms Measles Case in LA County - Public Advised to Take Preventive Steps and Ensure Measles Protection
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If you were at LAX on June 11, check out the press release for detailshttps://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/41c90a8?reqfrom=share
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Public Health Confirms Measles Case in LA County - Public Advised to Take Preventive Steps and Ensure Measles Protection
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If you were at LAX on June 11, check out the press release for detailshttps://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/41c90a8?reqfrom=share
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https://www.laviezine.com/1586776/la-to-paris-in-787-cockpit-air-tahiti-nui/ LA to Paris in 787 Cockpit Air Tahiti Nui #787 #787Cockpit #7879 #AirTahitiNui #Boeing787 #Boeing7879 #cdg #CDGAirprt #cockpit #Cockpit787 #dreamliner #FemalePilot #Flightdeck #FranceDestinations #FranceTour #FranceTravel #FranceTrip #FranceVacation #lax #LaxAirport #LosAngelesAirport #Paris #ParisAirport #pilot #Pilotlife #Pilots #Pilotseye #Pilotsview #PlacesToTravel #SaintGermainEnLayeFranceTour #tahiti
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#LAX #rideshare I’d like to who the idiot was that designed the rideshare/taxi lot at LAX, so I can give them a piece of my mind.
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#FRA #Boeing #Lufthansa #LH450
#dreamliner #LAXThe Nosee Wheel of a LH Boeing Dreamliner collapsed at the Frankfurt gate at boarding (12:45 CEST)
Multiple people are injured.
It could have happened at landing in Los Angeles … … …The Boeing 787-9 is pretty new and does fly since 5 months. LH450 to LAX has been cancelled.
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#FRA #Boeing #Lufthansa #LH450
#dreamliner #LAXThe Nosee Wheel of a LH Boeing Dreamliner collapsed at the Frankfurt gate at boarding (12:45 CEST)
Multiple people are injured.
It could have happened at landing in Los Angeles … … …The Boeing 787-9 is pretty new and does fly since 5 months. LH450 to LAX has been cancelled.
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There will be such happiness and relief when the People Mover finally opens at LAX. It looks good!
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There will be such happiness and relief when the People Mover finally opens at LAX. It looks good!
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Via LA County Public Health: Individuals who were at Terminal B on May 14th from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. may have been exposed to the #measles virus.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/417a6cb
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Via LA County Public Health: Individuals who were at Terminal B on May 14th from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. may have been exposed to the #measles virus.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/417a6cb
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Flights to nowhere can be fun
I hadn’t planned on my brief visit to Vancouver for Web Summit’s second annual conference there to include any flying between my landing at Vancouver International Airport Monday and my departure from YVR Thursday morning. But sometimes, your event schedule has a gap just large enough for somebody to pilot a floatplane through.
That idea of taking an aerial tour of Vancouver got lodged in my head at Web Summit Vancouver last May–when I found myself distracted by aircraft departing from and arriving at Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, next to the convention center and its bitmapped-orca Douglas Coupland sculpture.
And as I was nearing the end of my first five appointments on an overscheduled Tuesday, I realized that a) I had almost two hours before my next appointment and b) the weather looked ideal for flying, at least compared to Wednesday morning’s forecast of clouds and possibly rain. So I booked a 20-minute tour flight on Harbour Air’s site at what seemed a workable time before I had to walk a few blocks away for an offsite panel.
The flight on this 67-year-old de Havilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter was what I hoped and expected it to be, going from my experience taking a floatplane ride above Seattle out of Lake Union 13 years ago. Taking to the air and returning from it without solid ground below the wing feels like cheating at flying; being in a plane small enough where you can see the pilot adjust the controls and almost immediately see and feel the aircraft respond provides an extraordinary demonstration of aerodynamics at work; the views from a large and non-pressurized window maybe 1,000 feet above ground are magical.
(The timing of this particular flight was less than magical, in the sense that it seemed that Harbour consolidated its 3 and 3:15 p.m. tour flights into one that departed at 3:20 and then left me hustling to get to my panel. I’ll expand on my avoidable scheduling fail in this Sunday’s weekly recap.)
Avgeeks sometimes call out-and-back bookings like this “flights to nowhere,”1 and I’ve now taken enough of them to realize I may have a bit of a flying problem.
My introduction, as far as I can remember, took place at a 1997 air show at College Park’s airport–the oldest continuously-operated airfield in the world–at which I recall paying $20 in cash for a flight in what years-later searching suggests was a Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane.
I then went almost 16 years before the next such flight, my Lake Union joyride–and then followed that days later with a balloon excursion above Sonoma County, Calif., that remains my slowest-ever aviation experience.
2014 bought a work-related flight to nowhere, a hop out of Austin during SXSW on the inflight WiFi operator Gogo’s business jet. That company invited me to try out the ground-to-air connectivity on this Canadair CL-600 by texting people, so I taunted a friend on the ground with “I’m texting you from a private jet. How are you?” and got the reply I deserved.
I had another Gogo flight to AUS and back in 2016 on the 737-500 that Gogo had acquired in the meantime, on which I saw a travel journalist successfully ask the pilots for a chance to experience takeoff in the cockpit jumpseat. That led me to make the same request before another Gogo flight on that 737 in 2017, treating me to an EWR-departure experience unlike any other.
In 2019, a friend took my wife and I on a tour above Sonoma County in his Diamond Star DA40 single-engine, four-seat aircraft. That remains my smallest-plane experience, and the only one in which I got to touch the controls. Briefly.
In 2021, I had my loudest-plane experience when I spent $450 to fly on a 1945-vintage B-25 bomber out of Hagerstown, Md., my only flight to date to allow a view from a tail gunner’s seat.
And in 2023, JSX treated me and other invited journalists to a DAL-DAL hop to try out Starlink WiFi on an Embraer 145.
The last two years tacked on ORD-ORD and LAX-LAX flights courtesy of United Airlines to test their deployment of Starlink on an Embraer 175 and then a Boeing 737. And with this week’s joyride above British Columbia’s metropolis, I have to accept that I’ve developed a moderately expensive habit here.
Which is okay with me.
- The bad kind of “flight to nowhere” involves a long-haul international flight that experiences some sort of malfunction that requires returning to the departure airport, even if that requires backtracking across much of an ocean. ↩︎
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Flights to nowhere can be fun
I hadn’t planned on my brief visit to Vancouver for Web Summit’s second annual conference there to include any flying between my landing at Vancouver International Airport Monday and my departure from YVR Thursday morning. But sometimes, your event schedule has a gap just large enough for somebody to pilot a floatplane through.
That idea of taking an aerial tour of Vancouver got lodged in my head at Web Summit Vancouver last May–when I found myself distracted by aircraft departing from and arriving at Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, next to the convention center and its bitmapped-orca Douglas Coupland sculpture.
And as I was nearing the end of my first five appointments on an overscheduled Tuesday, I realized that a) I had almost two hours before my next appointment and b) the weather looked ideal for flying, at least compared to Wednesday morning’s forecast of clouds and possibly rain. So I booked a 20-minute tour flight on Harbour Air’s site at what seemed a workable time before I had to walk a few blocks away for an offsite panel.
The flight on this 67-year-old de Havilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter was what I hoped and expected it to be, going from my experience taking a floatplane ride above Seattle out of Lake Union 13 years ago. Taking to the air and returning from it without solid ground below the wing feels like cheating at flying; being in a plane small enough where you can see the pilot adjust the controls and almost immediately see and feel the aircraft respond provides an extraordinary demonstration of aerodynamics at work; the views from a large and non-pressurized window maybe 1,000 feet above ground are magical.
(The timing of this particular flight was less than magical, in the sense that it seemed that Harbour consolidated its 3 and 3:15 p.m. tour flights into one that departed at 3:20 and then left me hustling to get to my panel. I’ll expand on my avoidable scheduling fail in this Sunday’s weekly recap.)
Avgeeks sometimes call out-and-back bookings like this “flights to nowhere,”1 and I’ve now taken enough of them to realize I may have a bit of a flying problem.
My introduction, as far as I can remember, took place at a 1997 air show at College Park’s airport–the oldest continuously-operated airfield in the world–at which I recall paying $20 in cash for a flight in what years-later searching suggests was a Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane.
I then went almost 16 years before the next such flight, my Lake Union joyride–and then followed that days later with a balloon excursion above Sonoma County, Calif., that remains my slowest-ever aviation experience.
2014 bought a work-related flight to nowhere, a hop out of Austin during SXSW on the inflight WiFi operator Gogo’s business jet. That company invited me to try out the ground-to-air connectivity on this Canadair CL-600 by texting people, so I taunted a friend on the ground with “I’m texting you from a private jet. How are you?” and got the reply I deserved.
I had another Gogo flight to AUS and back in 2016 on the 737-500 that Gogo had acquired in the meantime, on which I saw a travel journalist successfully ask the pilots for a chance to experience takeoff in the cockpit jumpseat. That led me to make the same request before another Gogo flight on that 737 in 2017, treating me to an EWR-departure experience unlike any other.
In 2019, a friend took my wife and I on a tour above Sonoma County in his Diamond Star DA40 single-engine, four-seat aircraft. That remains my smallest-plane experience, and the only one in which I got to touch the controls. Briefly.
In 2021, I had my loudest-plane experience when I spent $450 to fly on a 1945-vintage B-25 bomber out of Hagerstown, Md., my only flight to date to allow a view from a tail gunner’s seat.
And in 2023, JSX treated me and other invited journalists to a DAL-DAL hop to try out Starlink WiFi on an Embraer 145.
The last two years tacked on ORD-ORD and LAX-LAX flights courtesy of United Airlines to test their deployment of Starlink on an Embraer 175 and then a Boeing 737. And with this week’s joyride above British Columbia’s metropolis, I have to accept that I’ve developed a moderately expensive habit here.
Which is okay with me.
- The bad kind of “flight to nowhere” involves a long-haul international flight that experiences some sort of malfunction that requires returning to the departure airport, even if that requires backtracking across much of an ocean. ↩︎
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Nuclear #watchdog admits losing 10 work smartphones
" #Japan’s #Nuclear #Regulation Authority is under scrutiny.. Te circumstances surrounding te missing devices paint a picture of #lax #security protocols among #government #bureaucrats. Te smartphones were misplaced in a variety of locations, incl'g near hotels during biz trips & while employees were making their way home fr restaurants & bars. In some instances, staff didn't realize their phones were missing for days"🤦♂️☣️
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/nuclear-watchdog-admits-losing-10-work-smartphones-including-highly-sensitive-device-in-china/ -
Nuclear #watchdog admits losing 10 work smartphones
" #Japan’s #Nuclear #Regulation Authority is under scrutiny.. Te circumstances surrounding te missing devices paint a picture of #lax #security protocols among #government #bureaucrats. Te smartphones were misplaced in a variety of locations, incl'g near hotels during biz trips & while employees were making their way home fr restaurants & bars. In some instances, staff didn't realize their phones were missing for days"🤦♂️☣️
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/nuclear-watchdog-admits-losing-10-work-smartphones-including-highly-sensitive-device-in-china/ -
Airbus A321, with 224 passengers & 7 crew members, was leaving on Flight 4345 to #LAX when the collision took place, acc/to statements from #FrontierAirlines & the #FAA.
Smoke was reported from inside the plane & the passengers were safely evacuated using emergency slides as a precaution.
The FAA said Saturday morning that the plane “struck a person on Runway 17L” as it was taking off & that the agency was investigating.
#FederalAgencies #DOGE #MassLayoffs #Trump #FederalGovernment
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Airbus A321, with 224 passengers & 7 crew members, was leaving on Flight 4345 to #LAX when the collision took place, acc/to statements from #FrontierAirlines & the #FAA.
Smoke was reported from inside the plane & the passengers were safely evacuated using emergency slides as a precaution.
The FAA said Saturday morning that the plane “struck a person on Runway 17L” as it was taking off & that the agency was investigating.
#FederalAgencies #DOGE #MassLayoffs #Trump #FederalGovernment
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Woodland Hills woman arrested at LAX for allegedly trafficking arms for Iran
LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities carried out a major arrest at LAX Saturday night. Officials say Shamim Mafi…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #CA #CrimePublicsafety #Iran #iranwar #lax #LosAngeles #LosAngelesCounty #Transportation #Us
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Highlights from an intense @[email protected] boys lacrosse showdown between @[email protected] & @[email protected] on @[email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#NassauCounty #LongIsland #Lacrosse #LAX #Farmingdale #Dalers #SouthSide #Cyclones
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#CenturyCity is home to #NakatomiPlaza or 2121 Avenue of the Stars; formerly #FoxPlaza. #DieHard, released in 1988, was filmed around #SoCal from the lot #20thCenturyFox to #LAX. It joined the #NationalFilmRegistry in 2017. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #travel #photos #trivia #funfacts
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#CenturyCity is home to #NakatomiPlaza or 2121 Avenue of the Stars; formerly #FoxPlaza. #DieHard, released in 1988, was filmed around #SoCal from the lot #20thCenturyFox to #LAX. It joined the #NationalFilmRegistry in 2017. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #travel #photos #trivia #funfacts
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Century and Sepulveda. #SingaporeAirlines #LAX
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Century and Sepulveda. #SingaporeAirlines #LAX
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Los Angeles International Airport - Los Angeles, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/33.942501/-118.407997#KLAX #LAX #LosAngeles #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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Buying shit at #LAX is fucking painful. No receipt without an email address, and not refund without a receipt.
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Buying shit at #LAX is fucking painful. No receipt without an email address, and not refund without a receipt.
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United CEO is skeptical of eVTOL airport taxis, but FAA has a more nuanced take
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”Fisken på ditt påskbord kan vara rysk – utan att du vet om det” skriver ETC. Det är ett totalt överdrivet påstående. Det svenskar framförallt äter i helgsammanhang som påsk är lax och inlagd sill. Mängden rysk lax och rysk inlagd sill är nott.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/04/05/det-ar-inte-troligt-att-fisken-pa-matbordet-ar-rysk/ -
Los Angeles International Airport - Los Angeles, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/33.942501/-118.407997#KLAX #LAX #LosAngeles #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar
CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.
Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.
3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company
This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.
3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag
I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.
3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag
In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.
3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag
My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.
3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica
I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.
#AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines -
Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar
CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.
Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.
3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company
This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.
3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag
I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.
3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag
In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.
3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag
My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.
3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica
I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.
#AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines -
CNN is tracking the TSA wait times at major airports. Can verify that LAX had been very little wait at T1 & T2.
(And LAX security had real, trained, friendly TSA agents.)
✅ Flyers face unpredictable airport wait times as TSA goes unpaid | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-staff-shortage-delays-shutdown-03-20-26
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Weekly output: game development, Tesla Robotaxi, Bluetooth upgrades
I started this week in Austin for SXSW and will start the coming week by flying to Los Angeles, courtesy of an event United Airlines is hosting at LAX to show off tech upgrades coming to its fleet. The airline is covering my airfare and lodging, the reverse of the pattern that has prevailed over decades of my business travel.
3/17/2026: Crafting Global Games with Local Insight and Cultural Fusion, SXSW
I returned to SXSW after a year off when Nika Nour, a pal from D.C. tech-policy circles who’s now a senior vice president leading international business development at Savvy Games Group, asked if I could step in to moderate this panel. And then two of the other panelists got changed out less than a week in advance. Fortunately, everybody else on the panel (Nika, actor/producer/author Anjali Bhimani, and Six Foot chief marketing officer Manuel Delgado) was a practiced speaker and eased my job of leading a conversation about an industry that I haven’t covered that much lately.
3/19/2026: I Got Around SXSW in Tesla Robotaxis: The Rides Were Better Than the Buggy, Juvenile App, PCMag
I thought I should try Tesla’s self-driving-car taxi service while in Austin, but it took a day of unsuccessful attempts before I could book my first ride. And then the experience was surprisingly uneventful, with each of my five rides featuring a safety operator in the front passenger seat who didn’t do anything that I noticed.
3/19/2026: Get Ready: Bluetooth 6 and Other Advances Will Give Your Devices a Much Needed Upgrade, PCMag
PCMag elected to re-publish this post with some new text by me to highlight Bluetooth version numbers.
#ATX #AUS #Austin #autonomousVehicles #Bluetooth #Bluetooth60 #gameDevelopment #LAX #SavvyGamesGroup #selfDrivingCars #sxsw #TeslaRobotaxi #UA #United #UnitedAirlines #videoGames #Waymo -
Why is FAA prohibiting Los Angeles Police helicopters from flying near LAX airport?
This cuts off air support to police facilities in South LA.
#faa
#lapd
#LAX
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/new-airspace-restrictions-at-lax-prohibiting-law-enforcement-helicopters/ -
LA Times: LAPD helicopters barred from flying around LAX airspace ‘until further notice’
"...In a department-wide memo Thursday, LAPD Capt. Jonathan Larsen wrote that the Federal Aviation Administration had “imposed restrictions on Air Support operations and all general aviation” in neighborhoods in Los Angeles International Airport airspace covering three entire police divisions — Newton, 77th Street, Southeast, historically among the city’s busiest — and a portion of a fourth, Pacific...."
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Measles case at LAX
Potential Exposure at LAX Airport
This traveler arrived on Singapore Airlines Flight #0038 at the Los Angeles International (LAX) Airport, Tom Bradley International Airport Terminal (Terminal B), on February 9.
People who were at Terminal B on February 9 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. may have been exposed to the measles virus.
· Burger King #317, 1212 W Beverly Blvd, Montebello, CA 90640, February 10, 2026, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
· Taqueria El Atacor #3, 11156 1/2 Whittier Blvd, Whittier, CA 90606, February 11, 2026, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
· Domino’s Pizza #7857, 803 W Whittier Blvd, Montebello, CA 90640, February 12, 2026, 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
· 7-Eleven #25387, 1106 W Beverly Blvd, Montebello, CA 90640, February 13, 2026, 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
