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Zuckerberg updates status to 'Married'

zuckerberg-married-timeline.jpg Instead of the Saturday graduation party they thought they were attending, invited guests at Mark Zuckerberg's home in Palo Alto saw the Facebook founder and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, get married.
santa-monica-sidewalk-meter.jpg The city bills the new parking meters as smarter and cooler. For drivers, though, they foretell some expensive lessons in how you can't cheat technology. Get ready for more tickets.

Watch an iPad get made in the Chinese factory

foxconn-schmitz.JPGMarketplace Shanghai Bureau Rob Schmitz got inside the giant Foxconn complex in China where Apple's devices are made. First off, he says, don't call it a factory.

Harvey Mudd turns around ebb in female computer scientists

maria+klawe+skateboard.jpg The president of the college gets credit for drawing more women into computer science, the main STEM field where they were most obviously lagging.

Video: Be careful who you give an iPad

German dad helps out with the cooking.

Video: A better day to be at the Apple store

Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to be there on the day the hula flash mob drops in.

Familiar reporter uncovers lies about Apple

cathy-lee-china-mktplace.jpg Rob Schmitz, the "Marketplace" correspondent in Shanghai who is being hailed today for debunking "This American Life's" big January report on working conditions at plants Apple uses in China, used to be the Los Angeles reporter for KQED and "The California Report."

Video: Sheriff shows off new high-tech patrol car at CES

Capt. Mike Parker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is in Las Vegas talking up the electronic features of a black-and-white developed for the county by Raytheon.

Rocket Video's manager mourns loss of the store

In a piece titled My Store Just Died, Jeffrey Miller writes at Zócalo Public Square about being manager of "the last great independent video rental store in the city of Los Angeles."

BlackBerries working again, or so they say

As of 1:43 p.m., Blackberries in L.A. are texting and beeping again. But it was tense there for awhile.

LA Observed on KCRW: Nerds and surfers in the blue sky metropolis

The line of California nerd-dom remains unbroken from Howard Hughes and hotrodders to Steve Jobs and the aerospace engineers who made surfing culture possible.

Steve Jobs was no friend of journalists

time-jobscover.jpg James Rainey visits the less appealing side of Steve Jobs, plus biographer Walter Isaacson on the late Apple co-founder.

Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford

On life and death, among other topics.

Kevin Mitnick's book lands

kevin-mitnick-twitter.jpg Mitnick is, I think, the most famous or notorious computer cracker (and hacker) to come out of the L.A. area.

Science writer Thomas Maugh retiring from L.A. Times

latentrance.jpg The current wave of departures from the Los Angeles Times newsroom isn't nearly over.

Why one journalist won't buy another Mac *

Dan Gillmor typically buys a new computer every year, and loves his MacBook Air.

AP updates its Steve Jobs advance obit, Apple not happy

The Associated Press made calls to some top executives in Hollywood looking for quotes to freshen up the prepared obituary on Apple's Steve Jobs.

Reporter posts AOL 'request' to be nicer to movie *

jake-alexia.jpg File this in the corner of your mind where you're a least a little concerned about editorial standards at the new AOL.
LA Observed on Twitter
venice-lemonade-slush.jpgBlogger Diana Chang photographed every shop that faces the ocean — and set her gallery to music by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Go there


I understand the emotion of LA Kings nation, and get the passion of hockey fans generally. Still, I'm surprised by this turnout to greet the Kings players at LAX Wednesday morning. Watch larger

mosquito-air-patrol.jpgPasadena police and the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District flew over El Monte and Duarte and identified 21 dirty, abandoned or improperly drained swimming pools that could provide breeding environments for Asian tiger mosquitoes. San Gabriel Valley Tribune photographer Walt Mancini rode along. Links

falcon9-rocket-launch1.JPGSpaceX successfully launched its Dragon orbiter Tuesday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space.com

party aftermath.jpgThe aftermath of a teenage party over the weekend in the Silver Lake hills. The latest in the Night Vision series by Iris Schneider. Native Intelliigence
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