The numbers behind Super Bowl LIII
Some commentators are calling it the “most boring game ever.”
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Santa Clara County builds coalition to tackle climate change
When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, backpedaling on a commitment to join 195 other nations in taking on climate change, Santa Clara County launched a campaign to rebuild that commitment — one local government at a time.
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Machine learning explained: How Facebook uses it to learn more about you
Last month, tech writer Kate O’Neill sparked a debate online, with a sarcastic tweet speculating that Facebook’s “Ten Year Challenge” was really a ploy by the social media company to fuel it’s facial recognition machine learning algorithms. Her subsequent
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Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
The City of Palo Alto and Youth Community Service honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a community celebration filled with activities, performances and music.
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200-ton historic house finds new home across San Jose State campus
SAN JOSE – The relocation effort drew spectators. Everyone from former students to retired staff waited from behind caution tape as the house was towed — squeezing between trees and rolling over lawns.
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Family members working as private contractors for Cal Fire recount a close call with Camp Fire
The Wurlitzer family’s company is one of 18 bulldozer vendors contracted by Butte County Cal Fire for extra assistance in combatting an increasing number of wildfires that have strapped the state’s resources. The Camp Fire was the worst that any of them had ever seen.
Congestion in the Bay Area is at a record high. Amsterdam might have some solutions
BAY AREA — Traffic congestion is one of the Bay Area’s most pressing problems. On average, Bay Area drivers spent over 79 hours in traffic jams last year. It doesn’t have to be that way. In the Amsterdam Transit Region in the Netherlands, where around 1.5 million people live, more than 50 percent commute by other means than cars.
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Lacking guidance from doctors, parents lead the charge in treating children with CBD
PALO ALTO — Faced with a lack of guidance from their doctors and the possibility that cannabidiol could help their sick children, parents are taking their children’s health into their own hands.
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How California police departments targeted gay men in sting operations for a century
LONG BEACH — San Carlos-based civil rights attorney Bruce Nickerson estimates that between 40,000 and 50,000 people in California, mainly gay men, have been arrested in illegitimate police decoy operations since 1979, the year the California Supreme Court redefined lewd conduct to include a question of whether an action was highly offensive to an observer.
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Mountain View city, businesses get creative to combat labor shortage
MOUNTAIN VIEW — There’s a labor shortage that’s showing on the facades of downtown Mountain View’s businesses. But shop owners and the city officials have come up with strategies to entice workers — by providing better employee benefits, passing an increase in the minimum wage and developing more affordable housing.
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Wildland development escalates California fire costs
PARADISE — The Camp Fire is just the latest mega-fire in California — and the cost of fighting such fires has risen dramatically. California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs, an analysis by a Stanford journalism class has found. The Stanford class analyzed daily reports from the most expensive fires in every state from 2014 to 2017, and found that dense development at the border of wildlands — in communities like Paradise, Cobb, and Santa Rosa — helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out.
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Despite small victories in keeping DACA alive, uncertainty remains. Here’s one recipient’s story.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival recipients received a reprieve, in late November when a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the end of DACA. The recipients were given a small victory, but fear of deportation remains. The DACA recipients and the Trump Administration anxiously await to learn if the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case.