Groupon may have gotten its start in Chicago, but everything about it is Silicon Valley.
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Farming is making a comeback, and it’s not just the fans of local food and organic produce who are behind the shift. It’s the Internet. About 20 percent of the total population now plays Zynga’s Farmville.
Sean Connery’s missive was the “Best letter ever!” if you trust what people say on Twitter, but The Washington Post has discovered that Connery’s letter to Steve Jobs was actually a fake, put out by the humor site Scoopertino.
Japan has announced a new supercomputer, the Fujitsu K, which it says will be capable of doing 10 quadrillion (1 followed by 15 zeros) equations per second, making it more powerful than the combined capabilities of the next five supercomputers in the world.
LulzSec has been making some new friends and some powerful enemies over the weekend. Rumors that the group was feuding with Anonymous, another famous hacker consortium, proved to be little more than wishful thinking, now that the two groups have announced that they will be collaborating to take on banks and government agencies.
Steve Jobs has been after Sean Connery to participate in an Apple commercial for some time. Connery has turned Jobs down not once but several times, saying that he would not “sell his soul for Apple or any other company.”
San Jose’s great and all, it’s good to get out once and a while. There’s so much Bay Area waiting to be explored just outside the city borders. On your next day off, take advantage of the free time and good weather and gather some friends in a car, putting one of these destinations at point B.
The unique composer displays a blend of traditional Chinese and contemporary music. Wu Fei shares her masterful voice as well as her guzheng skills at Montalvo on Friday, June 24.
White Album Ensemble comes to Music in the Park this Thursday night for a night of classic Beatles tunes with a theatrical twist.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: J. Lohr wine tasting, dog-friendly author Wayne Pacelle, The Princess Bride, White Album Ensemble, Viviana Guzman and Jeremy Jouve.
