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| Mar.13 |
Adobe |
Adobe semaphore code cracked by Tennessee high school teacher
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| Jul.12 |
Stanford |
Mall docks robot cops after kid hit
| May.2 |
Moffett Field |
Record-breaking Solar Impulse 2 departs Bay Area early Monday After just over a week of calling the Bay Area home, the Solar Impulse 2 will begin the next leg of its 35,000-kilometer around-the-world journey
| Apr.24 |
Moffett Field |
Solar-powered plane lands at Moffett Federal Airfield
Map of Moffett Federal Airfield Moffett Field The one-of-a-kind aircraft will remain in the Bay Area until conditions allow it to depart and then will continue on its around-the-world journey | |
| Apr.23 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
Solar plane crossing Pacific reaches California Pilot Bertrand Piccard is performing a fly-by over the Golden Gate Bridge as spectators watch the narrow plane with extra-wide wings from below
| Apr.2 |
Menlo Park |
Drone helps aid fire fight in Menlo Park
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| Nov.5 |
Palo Alto |
Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics | |
| Sep.29 |
Stanford |
Stanford, Berkeley researchers win MacArthur 'genius grants' |
| Sep.7 |
Stanford |
Toyota to invest $50M in car-tech research at Stanford, MIT |
| May.21 |
SF Downtown |
Twitter opens $3 million tech skills center for poor, homeless |
| Jan.10 |
Moffett Field |
Nissan and NASA to test self-driving cars in Sunnyvale |
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| Oct.7 |
Fremont |
Founder of Fremont LED startup wins Nobel |
| Mar.20 |
South of Market |
Virtual reality battle heats up at Game Developers Conference |
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| Dec.23 |
Google |
Google's Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge
| Dec.16 |
SF Downtown |
S.F. rolls out 3 miles of free Wi-Fi along Market Street |
| Nov.6 |
Treasure Island |
Google breaks silence about Treasure Island mystery barge 'We’re exploring using the barge as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology,' wrote a Google spokesperson | |
| Oct.29 |
Los Altos |
Steve Jobs' home gets historic designation The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic...
| Sep.7 |
Stanford |
Santa Clara, Stanford compete in Solar Decathlon |
| Aug.21 |
Facebook |
Facebook aims to get the world online |
| Jul.3 |
Atherton |
Doug Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies The inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early e-mail, word processing programs and the Internet, died at the age of 88
| May.3 |
Moffett Field |
Solar Impulse takes off from Moffett Field 
A plane that flies on nothing but the power of the sun is now on its way to Phoenix as part of a historic cross-country flight | |
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| Jun.18 |
Livermore Lab |
US regains supercomputer crown IBM's Sequoia has taken the top spot on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers for the US
| Jan.6 |
Palo Alto |
Ford to set up research facility |
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| Dec.29 |
Stanford |
Archives offer window into Apple origins
| Oct.31 |
UC Berkeley |
Mechanical flying cockroach unveiled
| Sep.15 |
SF City Hall |
SF debuts parking texting service |
| Aug.23 |
UC Berkeley |
Professor close to creating robot maid |
| May.18 |
Intel |
Intel CEO touts power-saving chip focus Paul Otellini says his company's focus is shifting toward power-saving chips as smartphones and tablets account for a rising share of the ma...
| Apr.15 |
San Mateo |
Robots face off in 8th annual RoboGames
| Apr.4 |
Livermore Lab |
Supercomputers analyze behavior |
| Mar.28 |
Palo Alto |
Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies US scientist Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960s helped pave the way for the internet, has died aged 84
| Jan.14 |
San Francisco |
Wikipedia celebrates 10th anniversary The free collaborative encyclopedia grows over the last decade into the fifth most visited Internet site in the world
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| May.5 |
San Francisco |
1M Books Online For Blind, Dyslexic A new service by the nonprofit Internet Archive has hired hundreds of people to scan thousands of books into its digital database
| Jan.24 |
SFO |
Airport Moves To Offer Free WiFi Officials are expected to approve a deal to provide travelers a free wireless Internet connection at the airport
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| Oct.5 |
Intel |
UW-Madison's Patenting Arm Settles Suit
| Aug.30 |
HP |
HP Labs shift focus
| Jul.20 |
Google |
Google enhanced moon's 3-D mapping
| May.21 |
San Jose |
High school team wins with robots
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| Dec.9 |
Stanford |
40th Birthday Of Personal Computing
| Nov.9 |
UC Berkeley |
Program uses cell phones to unjam traffic
| Jul.17 |
San Francisco |
Conference: Surge In Blogging Women
| May.1 |
HP |
HP Labs' find could revolutionize computing
| Apr.16 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area tops in broadband use
| Mar.10 |
Stanford |
Computer w/sense of smell to be created
| Feb.28 |
eBay |
eBay Will Pay For Patents
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| Nov.4 |
Stanford |
Robo-car again wins the race
| Oct.21 |
SF Downtown |
Digital Scan Reveals Mona Lisa Mystery |
| Oct.7 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley Still Reaching For Wi-Fi |
| Sep.8 |
San Francisco |
Singularity Summit: AI, Future of Humans
| Jan.26 |
Intel |
Chips push through nano-barrier Chip-maker will start manufacturing processors using transistors just 45 nanometres wide
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| Sep.26 |
San Francisco |
High-tech control over congested streets |
| Sep.13 |
San Francisco |
Teen Exposes Lonelygirl15 Hoax |
| Sep.6 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley to get public Wi-Fi network
| Aug.21 |
Sunnyvale |
Free Wi-Fi Access At Library |
| Aug.15 |
Google |
Google Gives Free Wi-Fi To Mt. View Google plans to offer free, high-speed Internet access to everyone in its home town
| Aug.10 |
Google |
UC's Join Book-Scanning Project
| Apr.5 |
SF City Hall |
SF Picks Google, EarthLink For Wi-Fi A city panel identified Google and EarthLink as the best candidates to complete the ambitious project. The recommendation was completing a 6-week reviewc The companies decided to team togethe... | |
| Mar.9 |
SFO |
System Pinpoints Excessive Noise |
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Google |
Digital Map Highlights Hayward Fault |
| Feb.2 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab Deploys High-Powered Weapon Officials at the laboratory have added a high-powered gun that can fire 3,000 rounds a minute o their armory
| Jan.28 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley eyes wireless network
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| Dec.24 |
SF City Hall |
City Seeks Wi-Fi Proposals For City The city issued a request for proposals to provide a 'free or affordable' city-wide wireless broadband network
| Dec.15 |
UC Berkeley |
Google, Microsoft and Sun to fund lab |
| Oct.10 |
Stanford |
University Wins Robot Car Challenge Diesel-powered, driverless Volkswagen Toureg won a $2 million desert race in Nevada
| Oct.7 |
San Jose |
Robot Evolution On Display |
| Sep.29 |
Moffett Field |
Google plans offices, NASA partnership Google will build up to 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center and collaborate on research
| Aug.28 |
SJSU |
$0.5m grant for nanotechnology research |
| Mar.25 |
SFSU |
RoboGames start Hundreds of robot enthusiasts flocked to the second annual international competition, which features 450 robots
| Feb.16 |
Intel |
Intel Converts Silicon into Lasers |
| Jan.31 |
HP |
Alternative to transistors proposed |
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| Oct.10 |
San Francisco |
Americans win gold at World Cyber Games
| Jun.14 |
Livermore Lab |
Bomb detector to prevent terrorists |
| Apr.3 |
San Francisco |
Bid to create instant supercomputer Hundreds of technophiles joined their laptops in a grass roots bid to create a computing force
| Mar.30 |
Pac Bell Park |
Ballpark Becomes WiFi Internet Hub |
| Mar.21 |
San Francisco |
Hundreds gather for robot competition |
| Feb.11 |
Intel |
Researchers find silicon works in optical |
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| Jun.26 |
Palo Alto |
School district's insecure wireless network |
| Apr.17 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab rolls out new radiation detectors
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| Aug.15 |
Livermore Lab |
Supercomputer for nuclear safety
| Jul.17 |
HP |
Molecular computers