It’s an all-too-familiar Hollywood story: the out-of-work actor eking out an existence in cheap housing, earning minimum wage delivering pizzas, desperate for his big break. But for Jay Abdo — one of the Arab world’s biggest stars before the conflict in Syria made him just another anonymous refugee on the mean streets of Los Angeles — it has been particularly tough. Just a few years ago, the 54-year-old actor could […]

Pretty soon one person may be able to tun on and off all the LED street lights in Los Angeles. The plan, announced Wednesday, is to attach mobile chips to the existing streetlights that will connect them all via the city’s cellular network. The system will allow a city worker to turn individual lights on or off — say, to accommodate a film shoot — and to brighten the lights […]