More than 600 students spread among 20 university teams from around the world have descended on the SpaceX campus in Hawthorne in preparation for the third annual Hyperloop Pod Competition. The contest kicks off today (Sunday, July 22) at 11 a.m. In 2017, edgy billionnaire entrepreneur Elon Musk – who also runs Tesla and the…
It’s Father’s Day and Antonio Hernandez and his sister Asucena Hernandez of Los Angeles have driven nearly 150 miles to the U.S. border with Mexico to visit their father, Antonio Hernandez. He had been deported nearly 10 years ago. With smiles on their faces they approached the steel mesh fence separating the two countries at…
CORONA — Containment of a 250-acre wildfire that started south of Corona had grown to 45 percent Saturday as hundreds of firefighters spent their third day battling a blaze that had threatened homes and prompted evacuation orders — all of which have been lifted. The non-injury “Skyline Fire” was reported shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday…
Dozens of science lovers and curious locals crowded the halls of the Cal State Long Beach science building at an open house of the university’s Shark Lab on Saturday, July 21. Steven Holguin checks out the shark skins and teeth at the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab event Saturday, July 21, 2018 in Long…
Los Angeles police on Saturday surrounded a Trader Joe’s grocery store after a pursuit suspect ran inside. Broadcast reports showed police evacuating the store, where the suspect was believed to be barricaded. There is an active police incident at the Trader Joe’s near the intersection of Hyperion Ave and Griffith Park Blvd in #Silverlake. Please…
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By Louis Casiano, Contributing Writer Grappling with choppy waters that made the 62-mile route of open ocean a rough ride for competitors, a pair of Australians took the top men’s and women’s spots in a water ski race from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back Saturday. Australian Ben Gulley and American Todd Haig were…
In 2017, Elon Musk’s SpaceX company held the world’s first two Hyperloop Pod competitions. On Sunday, July 22, at Space X in Hawthorne, teams from universities around the world will compete in a third event. A new form of transportation In 2013, Musk published his proposal for the Hyperloop in a 57-page white paper. The…
Even though Santa Ana is home to some of Orange County’s most-affordable housing, sales in the city fell 7 percent in May vs. a year earlier. May is traditionally a strong sales months for Orange County, as the prime spring selling season hits full stride. We decided to see how neighborhood housing markets fared. ICYMI:…
It’s the futuristic vision every wide-eyed engineering student dreams about. Let’s build something that could change the world. For students competing in this year’s Hyperloop Pod Competition at SpaceX on Sunday, the future is now…or nearly now, anyway. “The entire highway system is only able to accommodate so many people,” said Brianna Benson with a…
