Since its 1992 opening, Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain Vineyard, maker of the renowned 2001 and 2005 Elivette, has been virtually inaccessible to visitors, until now. The 845-acre estate is offering its first wine tasting experience, called Tasting at the Top, which will take groups of up to eight guests at ...
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Valley-based electronics, also known as valleytronics, is one step closer to reality. Two researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have shown that the valley degree of freedom in graphene can be polarized through scattering off a line defect. Unlike previously proposed valley filters in graphene, which rely on confined structures that have proven hard to achieve experimentally, the present work is based on a naturally occurring line defect that has already been observed.
Read More »New Boom in Silicon Valley
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Office-space shortage in the South Bay.
Read More »What the Google Buzz-FTC Settlement Means for the "Apology Approach" to Innovation
The common, renegade approach of sending imperfect tech products out into the world--and having user experience guide improvements--comes under fire. Silicon Valley is renowned for its culture of innovation. There a common, renegade approach is to send products out into the world while they’re still half-baked, in the belief that it’s better to improve them based on real-world use, rather than trying to perfect them behind closed doors
Read More »Augusta National ranked No. 1 U.S. course again
Augusta National is No. 1 again in Golf Digest's biennial ranking of "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses," beating out Pine Valley Golf Club by a fraction of a point.
Read More »FrontRunners: From the Robb Cellar
After the watershed Paris tasting organized by wine merchant Steven Spurrier in 1976, no development has done more to raise the esteem of the world’s leading critics for the wines of Napa Valley than the partnership formed in 1978 between Baron Philippe de Rothschild, owner of Ch
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