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The worse traffic gets, the more fast food people eat

Fast Company Tech

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published in the Journal of Urban Economics , examined weekday traffic data from Los Angeles County highways between 2017 and 2019 and compared it with cellphone GPS data tracking customer visits to fast food restaurants in the same county during the same years.

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AMC’s revenue plummets by more than 90 percent as theaters remain empty

The Verge

AMC noted in its earnings that it’s “operating approximately 539 of its 600 domestic locations,” as of October 2020, but cities like New York City and Los Angeles remain big obstacles. Disney, and Universal, the companies can pivot some of their titles to streaming exclusives. We’re expecting it to continue to be choppy.”.

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Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon have a dirty shipping problem

The Verge

SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: A container ship enters the Port of Los Angeles on February 1, 2021 in San Pedro, California. As of January 28, a record 38 container ships were on standby to offload cargo to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles amid a wave of online consumer goods purchases in the U.S.

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Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

The Verge

Now, he’s given an initial donation to a new online, for-profit school in Los Angeles, according to an investigation by The Daily Beast. Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education Julian Vasquez Heilig said he wishes Musk had tried to partner with existing online education programs. “I

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Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do

The Verge

Privacy experts are already worried about how Facebook’s AR glasses allow wearers to covertly record members of the public. The dataset is the biggest of its kind ever created, and Facebook partnered with 13 universities around the world to collect the data. Such ambitions have huge privacy implications.

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Is Cause Marketing Real Advocacy or Consumer Apathy at its Finest?

ASU Lodestar Center

Audra Buras is currently serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Los Angeles, California. in Communication Studies from Arizona State University. in Public Relations from Northern Arizona University. She has over six years of experience in the nonprofit sector, and recently received her M.A. She also holds a B.S.

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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke

The Verge

Carl Berry, a lecturer in robotics engineering at the UK’s University of Central Lancashire, put things to me in less uncertain terms: “[Calling it] horse s**t sounds generous, frankly. The technology was announced as a railgun-like train system that would move people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than half an hour.

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