
Thom Jensen
Freelance Reporter at NBC News
Freelance Reporter NBC Bay Area News, Emmy Awards for Investigative, Environmental and Political Reporting [email protected]
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1 week ago |
nbcbayarea.com | Thom Jensen
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon speaking at the 2025 Bay Area-Silicon Valley Summit. The annual event, formerly known as the Pacific Summit, brings top tech, political and higher education leaders together every year to address the region’s and the nation’s most pressing issues. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are NBC Bay Area's Thom Jensen has more in the video report above.
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1 week ago |
nbcbayarea.com | Thom Jensen
A fire in Livermore on Saturday scorched a few acres and scared businesses enough to evacuate customers and employees. The fire, which broke out around 1:40 p.m., was first caught on a fire alert camera. Crews then responded and controlled the fire to a little over 2 acres. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are Embers from burned fence posts, brush, and rubble in the area have since kicked back up into small flames because the wind has been constant.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcbayarea.com | Thom Jensen
Elizabeth Holmes's partner and father of her children, Billy Evans, is starting his own blood-testing company and is seeking investors, according to the New York Times. Some say the new company sounds eerily similar to Theranos, the failed blood-testing startup through which founder Holmes defrauded investors and patients and is now serving prison time for those crimes.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Thom Jensen
4 hours agoIt sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that …
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4 weeks ago |
nbcbayarea.com | Thom Jensen
A longtime South Bay business is desperately trying to find a new home this week after being told it may be evicted from its current location to make room for BART's extension into San Jose. Silicon Valley Granite, located on North 30th Street next to Highway 101, has been in the same spot for a quarter-century, selling all things granite, from headstones to raw slabs for contractors.
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