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  • Tesla Recalls Some Model S Sedans Over Rear Latch Problem

    PALO ALTO (CBS/AP) — Tesla is recalling as many as 1,228 of its Model S vehicles, citing a problem with a rear seat latch in the electric sports sedan. The company said no injuries or customer complaints had been reported. Chairman and CEO Elon Musk said in a blog entry Wednesday that the strength of a mounting bracket for the rear, left seat latch may be weaker than ...

  • John Shinals Tech Investor Silicon Valley should fight for open Internet

    The technology industry has a habit of turning over existing Internet business models as users grow more sophisticated, and better technology broadens the scope and richness of online ...

  • LPA spotted off San Jose Occidental Mindoro

    MANILA, Philippines – While tropical storm "Emong" has yet to leave the Philippine area of responsibility, another weather disturbance that that may intensify into a cyclone is being monitored by the state weather bureau Wednesday afternoon. The low-pressure area (LPA) was last spotted 550 kilometers west of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical ...

  • Bay Area Residents Forced To Wait For Bridge Repairs

    One of the largest public works project in California history is struggling to re-gain public confidence amid construction delays and questions about whether the new bridge will be safe. A scheduled opening for Labor Day is in doubt as officials race to fix a series of bad bolts that were meant to keep the bridge secure in a catastrophic ...

  • San Francisco Supe Working On Solution For Tamale Lady

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A week after a San Francisco bar said it would no longer be able to allow the ';Tamale Lady'; to serve her famous food at its establishment, a city supervisor said Tuesday he is working on a solution. The popular Valencia Street establishment Zeitgeist announced on Facebook last week that city codes were preventing Virginia Ramos from serving her famous ...


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Movie Review

Ghosts of Mars

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starts out as a fairly effective sci-fi horrorshow, then quickly devolves into a mindless action movie that involves a small group of survivors machine-gunning hordes of possessed zombies. Carpenter, who cowrote the screenplay with Larry Sulkis, has an interesting central idea (even if it is lifted in part from Mario Bava's 1965 pulp thriller Planet of th ... ...

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  • HP Launches Moonshot Servers

    POSTED April 9, 2013 PALO ALTO -- HP has unveiled the world s first commercially available HP Moonshot system, energy-saving servers for data centers that use up to 89 percent less energy, 80 percent less space and costing 77 percent less, compared to traditional servers. "With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the internet and predictions for exponential growth, we've reached ...

  • BART to Assess Police Reforms Since Oscar Grant Shooting

    Retired BART police chief will return to begin an assessment of the department's reforms since the shooting death of Oscar Grant. Terry McSweeney ...

  • City of Calistoga Removes Gay Pride Flag

    Mayor Chris Canning says the complaints were about the process, or the lack of public process, of why the flag was raised and not about the ...

  • Boy 6 dies after being attacked by family dog in Union City

    UNION CITY -- What may have begun as typical child's play ended in a "tragic accident" Monday morning, police said, as a 6-year-old boy died after being bitten by the family dog at a Union City home.The boy, identified as Nephi Selu, was playing in the backyard of his grandparents' home in the 32400 block of Elizabeth Way just after 11:30 a.m. when the dog -- a young pit bull ...

  • Urban harvesting takes root in Bay Area

    For years, Barbara Stackhouse would go out every spring with her husband, Richard, to pick oranges from three big trees in her backyard in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. The couple would give the juicy navels and Valencias to friends, family members and neighbors.But as they got older, climbing ladders and hauling down all those oranges wasn't possible any more. "They fall. ...

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