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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 ...

  • Free events to check out near San Jose this weekend

    free . Parking at the Gardens is $20 if available. Visitors can also park at the nearby West Valley College and a shuttle will provide free rides to and from the event. Spring Festival at Hakone Gardens Information:11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Free Location:Hakone Gardens21000 Big Basin WaySaratoga, CA408-741-4994 West Valley College (parking with free shuttle)14000 Fruitvale AvenueSaratoga, CA ...

  • Bay To Breakers Runners Take To The Streets Of San Francisco

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thousands of racers, runners and strolling, costumed scene-makers spread across San Francisco Sunday morning in the 102nd Bay to Breakers footrace. Elite runners led the pack and crossed the finish line on Ocean Beach long before many of the estimated 30,000 participants managed to get over the starting line on Howard ...

  • Nathan Sturgis scores as Rapids take draw from San Jose on the road

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Marvin Chavez scored his first goal of the season to help the San Jose Earthquakes pull out a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night. Chavez drilled a knuckling free kick from 30 yards out in the 78th minute to beat Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin. The Honduran international was only available because MLS commissioner Don Garber upheld an appeal of his two-game ...

  • Yahoo board agrees to take Tumblr for $1.1B

    David Karp, the 26-year-old co-founder and CEO of Tumblr Inc., has agreed to sell the blogging site to Yahoo, whose board approved spending $1.1B in cash on the deal. Yahoo's board of directors reportedly approved buying the Tumblr blogging site in a $1.1 billion cash deal. The Wall Street Journal reported the board's action on Sunday. This is the biggest deal yet for CEO Marissa Mayer, ...


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Movie Review

Paper Moon [DVD]

Paper Moon [DVD]

Tatum ONeal was nine years old and had never acted in her life when she played one of the lead roles in Peter Bogdanovichs Paper Moon opposite her father, then superstar Ryan ONeal, and became the (still) youngest person to ever win an Oscar. Some have seen her victory as a sentimental fluke, but watching Paper Moon, its impossible to deny the power and subtlety of her performance a ... ...

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  • Oakland Effect Police say Melrose and 50th is latest crime hot spot

    Month on month, crime is up in our hot spot. With one murder, seven robberies, one shooting and seven residential burglaries, every category saw an increase since the last Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for police District 27 met. And my particular block, it turns out, was the worst spot in the neighborhood."Melrose and 50th is one of the hot spots this month," said our local ...

  • Shirakawas decisive vote in ambulance deal prompts Santa Clara County scrutiny

    In December 2009, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. flew into the San Diego airport, rented a Grand Marquis and headed to a marina Marriott for a five-day taxpayer-funded trip. With the county's vital ambulance contract soon up for bid, Shirakawa and his chief of staff, Eddie Garcia, asserted that they were conducting a tour of the "WestMed" ambulance service, ...

  • Super Bowl vote 49ers Bay Area prepare for NFLs decision Tuesday

    On Tuesday, 32 of the country's richest and most powerful people will file into a 15th-floor executive boardroom overlooking Boston Harbor. They'll lock the door behind them and take their seats in high-backed leather chairs around a large mahogany table for exactly one hour and 15 minutes.At 10:30 a.m. PDT, the NFL team owners each will write just two words -- "San ...

  • Community Corner Bay Area Nonprofit Encourages A Smart Summer

    SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – As Bay Area families gear up for summer activities, one local organization says it’s important to avoid summer learning loss, or ';brain drain.'; ';Basically kids will forget,'; Ed Caballero is Executive Director and Co-founder of Edventure More, a nonprofit enrichment organization that includes summer camps for kids pre-K through 8th grade ...

  • Fremont is US new manufacturing hub thanks to Silicon Valley

    In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops and laboratories buzz with ...

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