In isolation, this week's stories are all pretty notable, but if you put them together, it begins to sound a lot like the plot of a movie.

ENGADGET: Alt-week 1.26.13: quadruple DNA helixes, Byzantine mutants and battling hospital bugs

Of course, there are plenty of ways that a project this massive could go wrong, but if L.A. can pull this off it'll have some quite notable bragging rights, that's for sure.

ENGADGET: L.A. mayor wants muni WiFi by 2009

But -- if you're at all familiar with the craft -- there's a very notable name absent from the crowd.

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