Rebecca Bowring

Washington Bridge Collapse: 759 Bridges In State Have Worse Sufficiency Scores

huffingtonpost.com — There are more than 700 bridges in Washington State with worse sufficiency scores than the bridge that collapsed into the Skagit River on Thursday night, according to the Seattle Times. The collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge around 7 p.m.

How Steve Jobs and his wife secretly gave away TEN OF MILLIONS of their own money to charity... even as critics accused him of not doing enough

dailymail.co.uk — Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Jobs donated $50million to Stanford hospitals U2 singer Bono praised Jobs for his 'invaluable' contributions to fight against AIDS By Snejana Farberov PUBLISHED: 23:19 EST, 24 May 2013 | UPDATED: 00:35 EST, 25 May 2013 In his lifetime, Steve Jobs was roundly criticized for seemingly not donating enough money to philanthropic causes.

Mr. China Goes To San Francisco

techcrunch.com — A block from the Mariposa on-ramp and in the eye-line of 90,000 cars whizzing by on 280 sits an old warehouse that was home to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt weekly, and Digg. Most of the building is gutted and inside they are working on the "greatest enabler of hardware on the p..

'China's Silicon Valley' Has More Startups Now Than Ever Before

techinasia.com — Use your > keys to browse more stories Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood, sometimes called China's Silicon Valley, is home to plenty of the nation's largest internet companies, but it's also a hotbed for startups.

Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

npr.org — Like a proud father, Nay Aung opens up his MacBook Air to show me the Myanamar travel website he's built. But we wait 30 seconds for the site to load, and nothing happens. "Today is a particularly bad day for Internet," he says. This is life in Myanmar today: Even an Internet entrepreneur can't always get online.

Yahoo Hulu Deal? Yahoo Bidding On Streaming Video Site, According To Reports

huffingtonpost.com — Yahoo is joining in the bidding war for streaming video site Hulu, according to All Things D. Yahoo is reported to have submitted the bid Friday morning. Other bidders for Hulu include former News Corp president Peter Chernin, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media, Reuters reports.

Kickstarter and the view from the trenches of TechShop

pandodaily.com — Blaine Dehmlow, the general manager of the TechShop in San Francisco, describes what has become a tradition of sorts at the well-known building place that provides members access to tools and software: An entrepreneur sits down at a computer in the center of the second floor studio with a bottle of champagne in hand.

NOAA's National Weather Service

nws.noaa.gov — 000 SEUS66 KSTO 240422 EQRSTO CAZ013>017-019-066>069-241830- EARTHQUAKE REPORT RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 922 PM PDT THU MAY 23 2013 AN EARTHQUAKE HAS BEEN FELT MODERATELY BY NUMEROUS PERSONS OVER INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AT 847 PM PDT. TREMORS WHERE FELT A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE INITIAL EARTHQUAKE.

Obama Repeatedly Heckled By Bay Area Activist During Security Speech

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com — WASHINGTON (CBS SF) - President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a Bay Area activist shouting about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security Thursday. The woman was identified as Medea Benjamin from the anti-war group Code Pink.