Soda taxes are back, and thank goodness. The sugary beverage industry has spent billions of dollars across the United States trying to defeat any proposal that addresses the serious health costs of the soda and energy drinks we consume, and ...
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The engineer who oversaw development of Apple’s Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service to link together the “Internet of things.” Luc Julia, Vice President at Samsung’s innovation lab in Menlo ...
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Wycen Foods, a San Leandro, California-based establishment, is recalling about 809 pounds of Chinese style chicken sausages as they contain monosodium glutamate (MSG) which is not mentioned on the label. The product subject to recall is ...
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The upcoming sixth gymkhana video from slideways king Ken Block has been teased ahead of its release next week. Following on from his San Francisco-based Gymkhana Five video released last year – and 2011′s Four, 2010′s ...
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Leotek, a subsidiary of LiteOn Technology Corp., has officially announced the debut of its first color tunable LED bulb and entry into the residential lighting market on Nov. 6. The bulb comes with a special patent that allows it to be ...
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San Francisco Bay Area-based Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. continues its expansion in the Bay Area with its second store in Fremont. The newest Fremont store is located at 3954 Decoto Road, Fremont, CA 94536 and is open Monday-Friday from ...
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As demand continues to build for whole-ingredient premium chocolate, jcoco (pronounced "jay – cocoa") is widening its distribution into the Rocky Mountain region. With exquisite mouthfeel, inspired flavor infusions and ...
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The majority of homes in metropolitan areas in the third quarter experienced robust year-over-year price gains, with the national median price showing the strongest annual growth in nearly eight years, according to the latest quarterly ...
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Google's increasing use of users' personal data in its services may in the future extend to Maps, where users could see more customised, individual views. Google executives said Tuesday that in the future, what you see could be based on ...
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Microsoft today said that attackers are exploiting a critical and unpatched vulnerability in Office 2007 using malformed documents to hijack Windows PCs, and that Office 2003 and Office 2010 are also vulnerable. The bug can be triggered ...
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Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86. HP's latest and perhaps biggest move ...
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In an effort to expose the abundant natural fiber resources available in the Greater Bay Area, Fibershed presents the Fibershed Fashion Gala- a “Soil-to-Skin” sustainable fashion event featuring the collaborative works of top ...
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Joe’s Jeans Inc. in conjunction with Curiologie Development Ltd. announced the grand opening of the first Joe’s retail boutique in Canada. Located in the Oakridge Centre in Vancouver, B.C., the flagship Canadian location will ...
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Dell will give its first public demonstration of a 64-bit ARM server this week, the latest step in an industrywide effort to build servers based on low-power chips like those used in smartphones. Dell will show a server based on a 64-bit ...
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Google is looking to triple the number of people testing Glass before the official rollout of the wearable computers next year. The company announced in a post on Google+ Tuesday that over the next few weeks all of its Glass Explorers, or ...
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