Television movies for the week of Jan. 22
Coverage of TV and radio news from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gaustad sends Sabres to 3-1 win over Canadiens
Paul Gaustad had a goal and two assists to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night. Ryan Miller made 27 saves for Buffalo, which won its second straight road game following a 12-game losing streak away from home. Gaustad set up Ville Leino's fourth goal 4:01 into the second period to tie it at 1.
What if the lights go out?
In our wired society, surviving even a day without electricity can be a hardship (Just ask the nearly 2 million of us who lost it last October). But thanks to the combination of freak storms and a groaning grid, darker days may still be ahead.
Wall Street’s gilded frat party
A week or so ago, we read in The New York Times about what in the Gilded Age of the Roman Empire was known as a bacchanal – a big blowout at which the imperial swells got together and whooped it up. This one occurred here in Manhattan at the annual black-tie dinner and induction ceremony for Kappa Beta Phi. That’s the very exclusive Wall Street fraternity of billionaire bankers, and private ...
Code of conduct: The relentless march of the algorithm
Last October a tiny tech start-up from Australia called Kaggle raised $11m from a trio of venture capitalists. More interesting than the sum, modest by Silicon Valley standards, is who provided the funding: Index Ventures, a venture-capital firm co-founded by Neil Rimer in London but now one of the hottest in San Francisco; Khosla Ventures, founded by Vinod Khosla of Sun MicroSystems; and Max ...