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  • How to Design Your Own Silicon Valley

    For decades, people have asked a deceptively simple question: can you replicate the magic of Silicon Valley? Can you do this in businesses, organizations, and communities to unleash innovation, anywhere in the world? This is more than an academic mystery. The answer affects real lives. Every day, countless opportunities are passed by to invent better solutions, create new jobs, improve quality ...

  • Oaklands 39th homicide second of the day

    OAKLAND -- Police are investigating the city's second deadly shooting in less than 14 hours after a man was killed in West Oakland Sunday night. Officers were called at 6:30 p.m. to the 2900 block of West Street for a report of shots fired in the area, police said. When officers arrived they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.The man was transported to a local hospital where he was ...

  • YouTube It would take 16 years to watch a single days worth of video uploads

    YouTube celebrated its 8th birthday this weekend. More than 1 billion people visit the site on a regular basis. By the time you finish reading this article, YouTubers will have uploaded anywhere from 100 to 200 hours of video to the site. Thats an awful lot of funny cats. The Google-owned video juggernaut celebrated its eighth birthday over the weekend, and revealed its users are now uploading ...

  • Coming up Instagram founders without filters

    Kevin Systrom, right, and Mike Krieger, founders of Instagram, will be interviewed by Digg founder and Google Ventures Partner Kevin Rose in a Commonwealth Club event on May 30. Now that Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the Tumblr blogging site, it's timely to have last year's billion-dollar buyout babies coming up on a Commonwealth Club talk. Instagram founders Kevin ...

  • Yahoo Japan Hackers stole 22 million user IDs

    Yahoo Japan reports hackers hit their site for the second time in less than a month, this time stealing 22 million user IDs. Yahoo Japan is telling its 200 million users to change their passwords, after hackers apparently stole 22 million user IDs in an online raid last week. It doesnt appear the hackers were able to steal passwords or password information, nor that the raid affected users ...


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Movie Review

The Lady Eve [DVD]

The Lady Eve [DVD]

The Lady Eve is writer-director Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all. Always the ironic satirist with a love of great characters and improbably wild scenarios, in The Lady Eve Sturges dreamt up a classical Hollywood screwball comedy with such overt overtones about the appeals of dishonesty and criminality that it's a wonder the Production Code Administrati ... ...

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  • Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official vows not to screw it up

    This is a screenshot of on an animation that ran on Marissa Mayer's Tumblr about buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, which included a promise to run the blogging service as a separate business and "not to screw it up." Click the next panel to see the rejoinder to this acknowledgment about Tumblr users' unease over the deal. Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on ...

  • Toll road between Highway101 and Monterey Peninsula Highway 156 stretch a candidate

    It's just a 4-mile stretch of country road, but Highway 156 is a vital link between the Monterey Peninsula and the Bay Area -- and now it could become the first toll road north of Los Angeles. In a report released Thursday, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County says converting the outdated two-lane Highway 156 into a nearby four-lane toll road between Highways 1 and 101 could be ...

  • Bay to Breakers Just a thin shadow of Boston attack

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Beefed-up security in response to last month's Boston Marathon bombings didn't deter tens of thousands from reveling in San Francisco's most spirited footrace Sunday.Berkeley resident Kenneth Prochnow, 62, ran his 28th Bay to Breakers wearing a "Boston Strong" T-shirt, one of many that could be spotted in the sea of colorful costumes and birthday ...

  • Google CEO Page has Paralyzed Vocal Cords

    Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced on his Google Plus page that he has paralyzed vocal cords and also suffers from a rare condition called Hashimoto's thyroditis. Page has not spoken at recent investor events and his voice has been much softer over the past year. Page said a doctor discovered he had left vocal cord paralysis 14 years ago after suffering a bad cold and his ...

  • HP to Sell $169 Android Tablet

    POSTED February 27, 2013 PALO ALTO -- HP announced plans in April to sell the Slate, an affordable Android Jelly Bean consumer tablet that provides customers with easy access to Google Mobile services with a starting price of $169.With a 7-inch diagonal screen and weighing 13 ounces, the HP Slate is an ideal trusted personal companion, featuring a stainless-steel frame and soft black paint in ...

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