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Dine & Drink Deals
Here are a few options from restaurants and bars as we work our way back toward normal.
Get those hats and fascinators ready. Women Who Whiskey Los Angeles holds a virtual Old Forester Mint Juleps & Kentucky Turtle Derby event on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Tune in to watch the “slowest two minutes in sports” as Louisville s Old Forester holds a turtle race before the running of the Derby. Purchase a mint julep kit for $35 (21+) and pick it up at Here & Now in downtown L.A.
Other bars and restaurants are also offering specials for the Kentucky Derby, which happens on Saturday at 3:50 p.m.
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020.
Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.
LA County Museum of Art and Snap launch AR monument collection
LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives explores the history of Los Angeles.
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Snap Inc. launch LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives
Initiative rolls out with dynamic schedule of programs including panels, podcasts, and a docuseries.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with Snap Inc., today introduces the first collection of LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives projects. This multi-year initiative brings together local artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region. These augmented reality monuments were built using Snapchats technology and are available to experience starting today.