The Denny’s Booth That Launched A Multi-Trillion Dollar Company

The staff at the Denny’s on Berryessa Road in San Jose probably get more calls than most Denny’s. Tour buses pull into the parking lot carrying visitors from across the country, or even from the other side of the world.  “Is this the Nvidia store?” callers ask. The answer, every time, is that it is […]

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As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it

After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don’t want to lose patients’ trust. Michal Ruprecht, a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow, reports for NPR. Read the full story here.

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Prototype to Perfection: Apple’s Personal Computing Journey in Augmented Reality

The following link leads to an augmented reality (AR) experience focusing on the evolution of Apple’s products over an 18 year span. We collaborated with the Stanford Library Archives and the Computer History Museum to create three unique experiences with original Apple prototypes. The AR scans include 5 original Apple prototypes: the Apple I and

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Mountain View votes to cut license plate camera contract

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The Mountain View City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, Feb. 24, to terminate its contract with Flock Safety after the police department discovered that outside agencies — including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offices in Kentucky and Nashville and Langley Air Force Base in Virginia — had accessed the

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Statewide candidates usher in 2026, pushing for gains in women’s political representation 

SAN FRANCISCO – A slate of women running for state office emphasized the importance of women’s political representation to a crowded ballroom of donors in San Francisco’s financial district on Jan. 30.   Among the speakers were two gubernatorial candidates: former U.S. representative Katie Porter from California, and Deb Haaland, former U.S. representative and secretary of the interior from

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Under Trump’s education funding cut, students with special needs struggle to seek job opportunities

BURLINGAME—Special Education Student Joseph Reed never imagined he would lose his work-study job opportunity at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year due to President Donald Trump’s funding cuts to K-12 education. “I was bummed,” said Reed. “I was sad and disappointed that [I] couldn’t work no more.”  Reed is currently a freshman at Bay

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Once working nights, now walking dogs: Former nightclub worker finds meaning managing canine crews

After 12 years working the nightclub in Las Vegas, Roberto Smith was ready for a change. A move to Florida led to an unexpected encounter that would transform his life — the owner of a business spotted him playing with dogs on the street and offered him a job in California.  “I couldn’t believe it

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Luc Besson’s ‘Dracula’ is more fairy tale than scary tale

Dracula, worn as he is, continues to survive the light of day. Controversial director Luc Besson presents a run-of-the-mill take on horror’s most iconic monster — though his is less a horror film and more a fantasy romance, shadowed by predatory violence. In medieval Romania, Prince Vlad II (Caleb Landry Jones) — otherwise known as

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Book Review: In “As a Jew,” Sarah Hurwitz explores Jewish identity in diaspora

Sarah Hurwitz has become a kind of Rorschach test for the Jewish American community. Since beginning her book tour in early September for As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story From Those Who Try To Blame, Shame, and Erase Us, Hurwitz has found herself the target of accusations from across the ideological spectrum. She has become renowned for saying the quiet

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Palo Alto digital art being removed for maintenance

Palo Alto will remove a digital art installation featured in the City Hall for a decade due to maintenance issues, the Public Art Program Director announced Jan 15.  Digital art pieces are often expensive and face maintenance issues. The Commission was aware of this when they decided in a 2016 contract that digital art piece Conversation by Susan Narduli would

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Oakland environmentalists plan last-resort protests against coal terminal

After the construction of a West Oakland coal terminal was approved by the California Supreme Court in September, members of environmental group 350 East Bay Area have renewed a decade-long movement to keep potentially carcinogenic coal out of the Bay.  Many anti-coal advocates were disappointed this fall, after the Court decided not to review a

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