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People in San Luis Obispo County received a series of unsettling, erroneous emergency alerts Friday as repairs were being made to a nuclear power plant’s siren system, including a vague cellphone message that told them to “prepare for action.” The chain of mistaken alerts began arousing confusion and fear when a siren that’s part of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s warning system began wailing Friday afternoon for no apparent reason, county emergency services manager Ron Alsop said. Earlier in the day, crews had upgraded the siren as part of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s summer-long revamp of the emergency system. To indicate there was no emergency, county officials issued an alert. “Unbeknownst to us, with a new emergency alert system, it also triggered the new wireless alert cellphone system,” Alsop…

Moments after Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez sunk his teeth into an opposing Italian player during Tuesday’s World Cup match-up, brands were using the incident to market burgers on Twitter. Suarez’s mid-game snack-and Italian forward Mario Balotelli’s Twitter plea for a kiss on the cheek from Queen Elizabeth- drew massive online attention this week as the initial group stage matches played out. More than 300 million tweets have been sent about the World Cup so far, and Google has logged over 1.1 billion searches related to the world’s most popular sporting event. While the tournament’s June 12 kickoffgame between Brazil and Croatia still drew the most tweets of any match, people paid more attention to this week’s games, at least as measured by matches they viewed online. Here’s a look at…

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They Came Together Directed by David Wain and written by Wain and Michael Showalter as a parody of romantic comedies, They Came Together tells the unlikely love story of Joel (Paul Rudd) and Molly (Amy Poehler). That’s despite the two hating each other at first, given the threat posed by his big Corporate Candy Company to her quirky indie candy shop. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. 2. Director and co-writer David Wain has said of the movie: “One very shorthand way I’ve come up with is to say it’s a purposefully dumb romantic comedy, or a purposefully terrible romantic comedy. But that could really scare people away, so I don’t want to say that. ... Another way to say that…

Google is fine-tuning its digital music strategy with the acquisition of Songza, a service that creates soundtracks tailored for people’s changing moods. Financial terms of the deal announced Tuesday were not disclosed. That means the price is considered to be too small to affect Google Inc., which ended March with $59 billion in cash. The acquisition highlights the growing importance of services that customize playlists as more people listen to music through Internet connections on their smartphones, tablets and personal computers. Apple Inc. is buying headphone maker Beats Electronics for $3 billion largely because it prizes the song-picking prowess of a digital music service that Beats has been building. The music service combines automated formulas with the expertise of a team led by Beats’ co-founders, longtime recording industry executive Jimmy…

Prosecutors building a sweeping disabilitiesbenefit fraud case got a trove of data from the Facebook accounts of more than 380 people, the social media giant said this week as it disclosed a nearly yearlong legal fight over the largest set of search warrants it has ever received. Facebook ultimately turned over the information but is appealing the court order that required it to do so, saying prosecutors intruded on users’ privacy. The Manhattan district attorney’s office and a judge have said the search warrants were justified. The dispute adds to a roster of clashes between authorities and Internet companies over law enforcement efforts to scrutinize people’s online lives for potential evidence. “It’s part of a trend toward more aggressive challenges by Internet providers on behalf of their customers,” said Orin…

Your favorite team is playing for the title, and you are in the middle of the field. You have a ticket in the very top row for an NBA playoff game, and a courtside seat. The referees are reviewing a big play in the final seconds, and you are right there in front of them. Google Glass is slowly becoming more common in sports as teams and broadcasters try to bring fans closer to the action. The Philadelphia Eagles are going to test the Internet-connected eyewear for in-game use, and a company with a key application for the technology says it has secured a new round of financing that will help roll out its Glass program to sports, entertainment and other fields. “When I talk to teams and ask them…

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These Days... Ab-Soul Hip hop star Ab-Soul follows up 2012’s critically acclaimed Control System with These Days..., his third studio album. It features guest appearances from Black Hippy affiliates Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q and Jay Rock, as well as such production talents as Sounwave, Tae Beast and Dave Free of Digi+Phonics. FIVE FACTS: 1. Ab-Soul is the stage name of Herbert Anthony Stevens IV. 2. He is a member of hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, with fellow West Coast rappers Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q. 3. Of his earliest musical influences, Ab-Soul has said: “I know early on, I really, really liked Michael Jackson, like we all did. Newborn babies loved Michael Jackson.” 4. He has commented on the title of These Days...: “Originally, I didn’t want a…

The first time the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board dissected a National Security Agency surveillance program, it found fundamental flaws, arguing in a January report that the NSA’s collection of domestic calling records “lacked a viable legal foundation” and should be shut down. But in its latest study, the five-member board takes the opposite view of a different set of NSA programs revealed last year by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden. The new report, which the board was to vote on Wednesday, found that the NSA’s collection of Internet data within the United States passes constitutional muster and employs “reasonable” safeguards designed to protect the rights of Americans. The board, whose members were appointed by President Barack Obama, largely endorsed a set of NSA surveillance programs that…

THE VALUE OF AN INTERNAL EDUCATION INITIATIVE The late Steve Jobs, as anyone who has ever been in the employ of Apple in recent years will tell you, was a misfit. Such is the very nature of genius - you can’t teach it. That’s the commonly received idea, anyway. In truth, even Jobs had certain tangible values by which he took Apple by the scruff of his neck to previously unbeknown success, during both of his spells with the company. With that in mind, could something of his genius - even just a semblance - be put in a bottle, for the benefit of future generations of Apple leaders? It may not be an easy task to create a new Steve Jobs or seven, but that doesn’t mean that you…

USING YOUR iDEVICE ‘ON THE GO’ Anyone who has been on holiday anywhere, ever, for even the shortest period of time, knows how easily things can go wrong. Maybe you’ve got a string of anecdotes of your own to tell. Perhaps you have tales of missed flights, hotel check-in problems, an inability to access your work emails from Barbados, and more besides? To be fair, though, any issues you may have experienced in recent years ‘on the go’ might not be quite so profound as those that you will have encountered just a few decades ago. These days, it seems that even the remotest parts of the world aren’t too far from a Wi-Fi hotspot or seven, and that’s without even considering how monumental an impact the smartphone and tablet…

Apple will soon make another bid to persuade schools to replace textbooks with iPads. Next week, it will introduce a tool for instructors to teach from the tablet. The company said that it would issue an upgrade on July 8 for iTunes U, its set of tools for educators. The update introduces a new app that allows instructors to create, edit and assign course work using the iPad. (Before, instructors had to log on to a computer and handle course materials through a web browser. Apple’s new iTunes U app will also introduce the ability for instructors and students to start group chat sessions. For example, if students want to discuss a homework assignment or a course topic, they can start a chat thread inside the app; the teacher can…

Twitter is hiring a Goldman Sachs executive as its new chief financial officer, continuing a shakeup that has led to the departures of several executives in recent months. The social media company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it hired Anthony Noto, 46, to replace current CFO Mike Gupta, who steered Twitter through its initial public offering in 2013. Gupta will stay on at Twitter, taking on the role of senior vice president for strategic investments. Noto was previously a managing director in Goldman’s technology, media and telecom investment banking group, where he led Twitter’s IPO process. Before that, he served as CFO of the National Football League. The CFO switch follows the resignation of Twitter’s chief operating officer, Ali Rowghani, earlier this month. Rowghani won’t be replaced because…

The European Union says the surcharges for surfing the Internet on mobile devices while traveling across the 28-nation bloc will be more than halved. The European Commission says the new cap on the so-called roaming fees will be effective starting Tuesday just in time for the summer holiday travel season. It said Monday the price cap for one megabyte of data use will be lowered to 20 euro cents (27 dollar cents) from 45 cents - a 55 percent drop. Phone calls and text messaging services across national borders are also getting cheaper by about 25 percent. The bloc’s executive Commission - keen on being seen as helping the EU’s 500 million consumers - started cracking down on the fees in 2007 and seeks to abolish them altogether by 2016…