Back in 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington reported seeing what is now believed to be the biggest solar storm in history. A cloud of electrons, ions, and atoms escaped the sun’s corona and hurtled through space, eventually hitting the Earth.
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Despite all the efforts to stop teen smoking, the problem is on the rise in Los Gatos, at least according to a coalition of anti-tobacco activists.
For people looking for an inexpensive home outside San Jose, Milpitas is an ideal, reasonably priced choice.
Protests by Anonymous against authoritarian policies hit a little closer to home over the weekend, when the hacker group announced that its latest target is BART. The decision to go after BART was in response to the rapid transit system’s decision to block wireless signals in its downtown stations.
Google’s Larry Page announced that the company has purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, or $40 per share. The move increases Google’s size by roughly 60 percent.
Few people noticed it at the time, but August 12, 1981, was a seminal date in world history. Less than two weeks after the launch of MTV, IBM introduced the original Model 5150 IBM PC.
Google is getting into gaming with the addition of a new Games button to its Google+ social networking site. This means that that Googlers can share the same experience as their nonplussed friends at Facebook.
Oil prices are down again, and with them the value of oil’s leading producers, including Exxon once the largest company in the world. The biggest blow to Exxon came on Tuesday when, for a brief time, it was toppled from its position by Apple.
“You may not shoot coyotes.” That’s the law in California, but that doesn’t mean that the animals are harmless. A Monte Sereno man discovered that on Aug. 1, when he woke up to find a coyote staring at him through the screen door of his bedroom.
In a message posted on YouTube, someone claiming to be a member of the hacker group Anonymous announced that the group plans to destroy Facebook on Nov. 5.
