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  • Teenage Indian hacker gets paid by US organization for dropping off college

    An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment. Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of ...

  • Transfer club at Oaklands Merritt College helps students navigate path to universities

    Merritt College professor Claudio Duran, right, speaks to students and faculty members during a meeting of Club Altazor on Monday, May, 6, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. Duran started the club to help his community college students figure out how to transfer to top universities. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News ...

  • HP Launches Moonshot Servers

    POSTED April 9, 2013 PALO ALTO -- HP has unveiled the world s first commercially available HP Moonshot system, energy-saving servers for data centers that use up to 89 percent less energy, 80 percent less space and costing 77 percent less, compared to traditional servers. "With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the internet and predictions for exponential growth, we've reached ...

  • Nicasio lifts Rockies to 5-0 win over Giants

    Juan Nicasio scattered three hits over six innings, Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki each drove in two runs and the Colorado Rockies won their first series over San Francisco in two years, beating the Giants 5-0 on Sunday.Dexter Fowler tied a career high with four hits to help the Rockies take three of four from the reigning World Series champions. Jordan Pacheco also drove in a run as ...

  • Two Dead in Plane Crash Near Auburn Airport

    An Federal Aviation Administration Official said that the Cessna 170 plane crashed in a wooded area about a mile south of the airport at 9:10 p.m. ...


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Movie Review

The Small Back Room [DVD]

The Small Back Room [DVD]

Especially when compared with the opulent Technicolor melodramas that preceded it--Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), as well as the aesthetically daring fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (1947)--Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgers The ... ...

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  • One of SJ City Hall Falcons Dead

    Gabriel Mcclelland said he was walking by city hall at 10:15 a.m. Sunday morning when he stopped and noticed a falcon on the ground. The bird wasn't moving, so he called police. Mcclelland said he recognized the bird as one of the celebrated Peregrine falcons that hatched on top of the city hall this ...

  • Tens of Thousands Run and Celebrate in San Franciscos Bay to Breakers

    More than 30,000 people, many of them dressed in costumes, participated in the 102nd annual Bay to Breakers race Sunday morning, making their way from the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood, across the city to Ocean ...

  • Five-Year-Old Fell From Window in San Francisco

    A five-year-old child was hospitalized after falling out of a window in San Francisco's Sunset District this morning, a fire department dispatcher said. Firefighters responded to reports of an injured child at a home in the 3800 block of 38th Avenue at about 11 a.m., and learned that it had fallen from a second-floor window, according to the San Francisco Fire ...

  • Napa Taco Bell Robbed

    A second suspect seen in a gray pickup truck that was stopped in the Taco Bell parking lot drove in the same direction the first suspect ran, police ...

  • American Cyclist Rides To Victory In Amgen Tour Of California

    Peter Sagan of Slovakia riding for Cannondale celebrates after winning Stage 8 of the Amgen Tour of California on May 19, 2013 in Santa Rosa, California. (Harry How/Getty ...

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