Los Angeles will soon have an ‘innovation zone’ for testing mobility products Model zone “Transportation and technology each have the ability to connect communities, create jobs, and contribute to progress on sustainability, equity, and economic growth — and Los Angeles takes pride in serving as a testing ground for dynamic and innovative mobility solutions,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The first-ever Transportation Technology Innovation Zone will unite local businesses, workers, and inventors around how to revolutionize mobility in the West Valley, and it will serve as a model for what’s possible as more zones come online in areas across Los Angeles....

The first time that I was using Lion and Safari 5.1 and all of my tabs decided to spontaneously refresh, dumping everything I had entered into them, I thought it was a simple beta bug as I was using an early build of the developer release. But it turns out that this was some sort of pervasive, perhaps even intended behavior that has continued to persist. If you’re unfamiliar with this annoying and potentially devastating bug, it causes all of the tabs in Safari 5....

If you’ve lost your iPhone or had your iPad stolen, it’s bad enough that you have to replace an expensive gadget but you also lose all of your important photos, videos and data stored within apps. Thanks to the way Apple stores backups of iOS devices, those that have had their iPad, iPhone or iPod stolen will be able to recover a large percentage of photos from files on their computer thanks to an app calledPicturescue, allowing users to save and re-upload their memories to a new device should they get one....

British sports car maker Lotus is adding navigation tech from What3words to give drivers another option to find their way to their destination. It’s starting by putting it in its $2.8 million (£2 million) all-electric supercar, the Evija. Lotus is integrating What3words’ word-based navigation tool into its app, which will allow drivers to set a 3×3 meter square piece of earth as their destination. The app will then take care of routing and navigation, and the car will display turn-by-turn instructions on their instrument cluster....

French Fashion house Louis Vuitton has teamed up with five arts institutions in London to launchREcreativeas part of theLouis Vuitton Young Arts Project. The website is set to feature content for young people, and provide them with access to the arts world. It will also provide a platform for sharing ideas, whilst displaying and promoting their work. From today, aspiring artists can upload their work and share it on the site and across the online community and, needless to say, users can sign-in with their Facebook log-in details....