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Kevin Rose

Robert Kevin Rose (born April 10,1977; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known as having been a co-host of the G4 (formerly G4techTV formerly Tech TV formerly ZDTV) television program Attack of the Show! (formerly The Screen Savers) until his departure from the network on May 27, 2005. He was born in California and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended a vocational-technical school before attending UNLV. After school, he got a job with the Department of Energy, where he worked as a technology advisor and held a Level L security clearance. He later moved to San Francisco, California and worked for several dot-com startups through CMGI.

After the dot-com bubble burst, Rose was hired as a technical production assistant for The Screen Savers. He eventually began appearing on the show, most notably in "Dark Tip" segments, where he provided information on lesser known (to the casual computer users that watched the show) computing activities. He sometimes filled in for the regular show hosts, and eventually became a full-time host after Leo Laporte left TechTV.

On May 22, 2005, Rose announced on his blog that he had been released from his contract with G4. He left the network to create Revision3 Studios and focus full-time on thebroken, a videocast he had created with Dan Huard which features questionable activities, such as password cracking and social engineering, and Systm, a videocast which closely resembles older technology-oriented formats of The Screen Savers. May 27, 2005 marked his last day of work at G4 and final appearance on Attack of the Show!. He soon will be making his return to television with his recently announced bi-weekly appearences on Call for Help with Leo Laporte.

Rose was one of only six TechTV personalities, including Adam Sessler, Morgan Webb, Sarah Lane, Chi-Lan Lieu, and Brendan Moran, to survive the massive layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV.

On November 1, 2004, Rose formed Digg, a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. Digg is now ranked among the top 1000 websites worldwide (according to alexa.com). He and former The Screen Savers host Alex Albrecht are now releasing a weekly podcast, Diggnation, summarizing the top stories submitted by Digg users.

Rose has occasionally appeared on the weekly podcast This Week in Tech with several other former cast and staff of TechTV's The Screen Savers.

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