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by Mauro Battocchi La Provincia di Ivrea non è mai esistita. Se lo fosse stata, negli anni Settanta e Ottanta avrebbe ricompreso le cittadine californiane di Cupertino e Palo Alto. In quegli anni la Olivetti fece crescere un centro di ricerche in Silicon Valley da cui uscirono prodotti di avanguardia e una scuola di super-ingegneri italiani. &nbs...

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I cannot wait. The Annual Italian Heritage Parade will hit the streets of San Francisco on Sunday, October 11, starting from 12pm, in the historical Italian district of North Beach. Last year, on October 12, almost 90 floats took part in one the largest Italian Heritage parades ever recorded. This year we will see the greatest participation ever....

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By Mauro Battocchi   Our beloved Dr. Federico Faggin, inventor of the microprocessor and advanced researcher of human consciousness, has been awarded the Enrico Fermi Award by the Società Italiana di Fisica, for his work in pioneering the technology that has radically and irreversibly changed the face of humanity.   Dr. Faggin, I am h...

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by Matt Barrows   The chants of "Eddie D! Eddie D!" from the crowd outside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium heralded the announcement that was made later inside.  Eddie DeBartolo Jr., who won five Super Bowls when he owned the 49ers but who has been a conspicuous missing piece from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, finally was voted in on...

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Il 15 e 16 novembre 2012 si terranno rispettivamente a San Francisco e a Palo Alto due eventi di promozione della moda Made in Italy, previsti nell'ambito del Programma di Promozione ICE.Location degli eventi saranno i due negozi Wilkes Bashford di proprietà della famiglia di dettaglianti Mitchell.Wilkes Bashford è stato il primo dettagliante ad in...

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The SF Gate quoted me saying this yesterday and since then I've been asked if I was kidding. Yet, there is no joke about it. People identify India, Israel and Ireland as the IT countries. But there's a fourth "I" for high-tech: Italy. The Italian Innovation Day and the whole "Italy Tech Week" showcase this reality. Often it's difficult to understa...

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Un genio teramano si nasconde nella Silicon Valley. Si chiama Vincenzo Di Nicola, ha 33 anni. È ingegnere informatico e si è trasferito negli Stati Uniti mentre era ancora studente all'università. Bologna, altri tempi. A San Francisco, una nuova vita. Lì ha fondato, insieme a un collega italo-americano, l'azienda GoPago, nota per aver sviluppato un...

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Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...

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by Jay Barmann   We heard earlier this year about star chef Jonathan Waxman's plans to open his first San Francisco venture, originally slated for the fall, in Ghirardelli Square. As it goes with these things, it's been delayed, and now Hoodline reports that Waxman and his partners are shooting for an early 2016 debut for a second iteration...

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Back in the year 2008, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) was preparing a celebration for their 90th Anniversary. Gianrico Pierucci, SFPD Police Inspector and author of the book, The Heart of North Beach, was serving on the board of directors of the SFIAC.   The club's president, Steve Landi, appointed Pierucci to be the 90th An...

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