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THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: Landmarks and Celebrity's Home Affected.

Thousands of structures have been leveled by the California Wildfires that continue to burn across Los Angeles County, affecting the homes of several celebrities in the Pacific Palisades—where the average home lists for more than $3 million—and damaging prominent local landmarks.

Affected Popular Landmarks and Celebrity's Homes :

The Altadena Golf Course, founded in 1910, sustained serious damage and the course’s clubhouse “did not survive the fire,” course officials said. Reel Inn, a popular seafood restaurant in Malibu, said the building had been destroyed by the Palisades Fire. The Malibu Feed Bin, a pet supplies and gifts shop founded in 1966, told its customers its location was destroyed in the Palisades Fire.

Palisades Charter High School, featured in movies like “Teen Wolf,” “Carrie” and “Freaky Friday,” was damaged by the Palisades Fire, including classrooms, bungalows, tennis courts and the school’s baseball field, a Los Angeles Unified School District official told the New York Times.

Several structures at the Will Rogers State Historic Park, a 300-acre property once owned by former actor Will Rogers until he died in 1935, were destroyed in the Palisades Fire, including Rogers’ former home, according to California State Parks.

The Topanga Ranch Motel, a bungalow home built by news publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1929 located in Topanga State Park, was destroyed by the Palisades Fires, according to state park officials, who previously signaled plans to restore the home for public use.

Theatre Palisades, a community theater founded in 1963, sustained “serious” damage and said in a notice it would suspend operations until further notice, saying, “We will rise again.”

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, founded in the early 20th century, told congregants its buildings were lost to the fire, though the facility’s Torah scrolls were safe, officials said...Continue in Comment

Satellite War! China “Hunts” Hundreds Of Starlink Satellites In Simulation Ops As Musk’s Internet Worries PLA

Amid looming concerns over China’s militarization of space and potential space war in the future, Chinese scientists have conducted a simulation operation targeting American billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network.

A team of Chinese scientists simulated a space operation targeting the Starlink constellation, proving that the massive network is not as invulnerable as originally believed, according to a new report in the Hong Kong-based South China

Apple spent $1,000,000,000 a year for ten years creating a product that will never release to the public

But behind the scenes, Apple were actually trying to branch out into a new market. Though after a decade of work, they scrapped the whole thing.

Apple is one of the biggest companies on the planet, but they couldn’t get this one product to work and have now dumped it.

For a lot of people when they think of technology they think of Apple. I mean, for the normal person they are essentially everywhere and have done their best for years to dominate the smartphone market.

Scrapped projects probably come and go on a near daily basis at massive tech companies except this one cost quite a pretty penny.

In 10 years, Apple has spent $10 billion trying to get this product off the ground and into the consumer's hands, and it just wasn’t meant to be.

We are, of course, talking about their secretive and now-scrapped car project, named Titan.

While it isn’t exactly clear why the company decided to ditch the product in early 2024, they did internally tell the 2,000 employees that were working on it that it was being discontinued.

The project was initially intended to take Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla before shifting towards becoming a self-driving car. However, this would eventually be scrapped and they would go back to being an electric vehicle to rival Tesla.
You can only imagine how many millions were wasted flip-flopping on what the goal of the project was.

In 2024, when the project was cancelled, Apple redirected its resources toward generative artificial intelligence which ultimately meant 600 employees involved in the project were left without a job.

A post on Instagram reflected on this swing and a miss by Apple but few were that sympathetic to the massive company, despite its massive financial losses.

One person joked: “They can afford it from all the money they annually collect from re-releasing the same phone.”