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jedwan on September 2nd, 2010

At least that’s what she told the 400 executives Wednesday at a Silicon Valley Leadership Group lunch with… Dianne Feinstein – Silicon Valley Leadership Group – United States – California – Government …

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UnitedHealth Group has announced it will invest $10 million to help California’s Critical Access Hospitals improve their health information technology (IT) systems and adopt electronic health records.

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Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery lifeA new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of “dark silicon ” …

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Group attempting to force California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Prop 8.

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jedwan on August 31st, 2010

A Wall Street Journal feature suggests that New York City may be sneaking up on Palo Alto, California as the best place for entrepreneurs to get started on a.

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An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the …

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jedwan on August 29th, 2010

Thanks to a judge in California, who forced Cal State to release the contract for a Sarah Palin speech, we now know what she’ll demand if you want her to speak at YOUR event. For starters: $75000

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An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the …

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A group of lawyers in California say that when minors click on Facebook ads and Facebook turns around and uses these minors’ names and photos in later ads, Facebook is breaking a California law which requires parental consent for using a minor’s name in an … Google Acquires More Social Networking Talent, Buys Angstro · ELEVATOR PITCH: CollegeOnly, The Social Network For The University Crowd · Nicholas Carlson is Deputy Editor of Silicon Alley Insider. Contact: e-mail: …

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The other authors are Alexandros Pertsinidis, a post-doctoral researcher and member of Chu’s research group at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, who is now an assistant professor at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, … Detecting individual fluorescent labels attached to biological molecules of interest using charge-coupled devices (CCDs) — arrays of silicon chips that convert incoming light into an electrical charge, has yielded resolutions as fine as five …

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