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Airs Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

San Diego County officials are reaching out to smart phone owners, in an effort to help them get the latest information during a major emergency.

Los Angeles Unified School District started issuing iPads to its students this school year, as part of a $30 million deal with Apple. The rollout is in the first of three phases, and ultimately, the goal is to distribute more than 600,000 devices.

So much fascinating tech and culture news, so little time. But we certainly think you should see the journalism that's catching our curiosity each week, so each Friday we'll round up the week that was -- the work that appeared in this blog, and from our fellow technology writers and observers at other organizations.

Police have long been able to search people without a warrant at the time of their arrest. Two cases — including one from San Diego — before the Supreme Court ask whether cellphones should be off limits until police get permission.

Apple Inc. said it will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499, a price tag far below the $1,000 that some analysts were expecting. Larger but similar in design to Apple's popular iPhone, the iPad was billed by CEO Steve Jobs as "so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone."

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the final cases of the term, which began last October and is expected to end in late June after high-profile rulings on gay marriage, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act.

Nearly two years after allegations of a sexual assault rocked a small Missouri town, the case may be reopened.

Corning, a 160-year-old New York manufacturer, is still developing some of the toughest glass in the world. But its focus has shifted from kitchen products to the high-tech universe, with products like Gorilla Glass, which was used on about 200 million mobile phones last year.

Airs Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV