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New video footage was released July 21, 2015, in the mysterious death of Sandra Bland.(Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Anderson)
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Video twist<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the mysterious death of Sandra Bland
Just #WhatHappenedToSandyBland? It's the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>question her family's been asking since her death in a Texas jail cell on July 13. If you haven't heard of her, it may be useful to know that one presidential candidate used her name in the same breath as Eric Garner and Freddie Gray. The short version: Authorities say she was arrested for getting confrontational during a traffic stop, went to jail<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and committed suicide in her cell a few days later.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The long version:The traffic stop. Bland was pulled over for failing to signal a lane change. Police say<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she was combative. A cellphone video posted online purporting to include part of Bland’s arrest shows an officer pinning a woman to the ground with one knee. At one point the woman can be heard yelling she can’t “feel my arm." Police released a 52-minute dash cam video<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of the arrest on Tuesday. (Warning: The video contains strong language.)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>An investigation is ongoing and the state trooper is on desk duty. How she died. Authorities say she hanged herself in her jail cell. Her family doesn't believe it. They<span style="color: Red;">*</span>called for a Justice Department probe, and an independent autopsy has been ordered. What's new. Video footage.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The Waller County Sheriff's Office released surveillance video Tuesday from inside the county jail the morning Bland died. The video starts, stops and lasts just nine<span style="color: Red;">*</span>minutes and 26 seconds, despite covering more than three<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hours of actual time because the camera is motion activated. The video shows an officer stopping by Bland's cell for several seconds. Less than an hour later, a female officer checks in, bends down, then runs for help. Five minutes later, paramedics go into the cell, but Bland was already dead. The FBI has been given the hard drives to determine if there’s been any manipulation of the footage.
Sandra Bland, 28, was found dead in her Waller County, Texas, jail cell Monday, July 13, 2015. The medical examiner has ruled her death a suicide, but her family disputes that.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Courtesy Ashley Anderson)
What about the Apple Watch? How’s that working out, Apple?
All eyes on the phone. Apple didn’t disclose shipments of Apple Watch — again — Tuesday, when it reported fiscal third-quarter results that included a tepid financial outlook that sent shares diving 8% in after-hours trading. (Apple reported after the market closed.) The omission of Apple Watch numbers raised a red flag among some analysts, as perhaps an indication that the device is not selling as well as Apple hoped. But never mind that. The big news was iPhone sales — <span style="color: Red;">*</span>especially the 6 and 6-Plus models — propelled another blowout quarter for Apple, allowing it to post a 33% jump in revenue, to $49.6 billion, and profits ($1.85 per share) that surpassed analyst estimates by 4 cents. Even so, the quarterly forecast had a sales view that didn’t wow investors, and it’s easy to see why. The quarter underscored dueling narratives: the astonishing strength of iPhone 6 and 6-Plus sales, and mounting doubt over the long-term sales cred of Apple Watch. Shipments of the iPhone dominated, with 47.5 million units. Analysts, including Toni Sacconaghi Jr., estimate Apple has shipped only 3 million watches. But the Apple Watch isn’t the only Apple device crushed by the runaway success of the iPhones. Sales of the iPad are down for the fourth consecutive quarter, down 18% to 10.9 million.
Apple Watch<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Apple)
Why Target's new T-shirt has some women fuming
We thought girls won trophies, not were trophies. Target seems to disagree. A T-shirt being sold in its stores and online in the women's juniors section is emblazoned with the word "Trophy." Sexist? A lot of people think so. Many say the shirt perpetuates a rape culture by designating women as objects to be won. A petition by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Change.org is asking Target to remove the shirt.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Target says it doesn't want to offend anyone. Company rep Molly Snyder sent a statement to USA TODAY: "The shirt you’re describing is part of a collection of engagement and wedding shirts that are available in our women’s and plus size departments.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The collection also included shirts that say 'Team Bride,' 'Mrs.' and 'Bride.' These shirts are intended as a fun wink and we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from our guests." OK. Still doesn't explain why it's being sold in the juniors department.
Lets be real here - no woman that considers herself a "trophy wife" would buy a t-shirt at Target.
— Nikki (@nikilien) July 21, 2015
Hackers exploit smart cars’ vulnerability head-on
This has us in a tailspin. Wired magazine reported Tuesday about an experiment it conducted with the help of two hackers to take control of a Jeep Cherokee from the comfort of their living room as writer Andy Greenberg sat nervously behind the wheel of the SUV, cruising the down a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>St. Louis highway at 70 mph. The results? Mission accomplished — terrifyingly so.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Security experts<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Jeep's computer brain through its Uconnect infotainment system and rewrote the firmware to plant their malicious code. Once in, the duo began blasting hip-hop through the stereo system, turned the AC to maximum and — this really freaks us out — killed the transmission and brakes. Greenberg wound up stranded in a ditch, but he was unharmed. If the frequent attacks on retail and financial institutions tell us anything, it's that there's no digitally connected network that is completely safe from hackers. And while it's one thing to have to change credit cards because of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a breach, it's another to be trapped in a speeding hunk of metal when such a crippling intrusion might happen.
A Jeep Cherokee winds up in a ditch after hackers working with 'Wired' magazine successfully took control of the vehicle by hacking in through its connected-car infotainment system. The article puts a renewed spotlight on the technological vulnerability of the coming fleet of connected automobiles.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Wired Magazine)
Hey, Earthlings! Check out our truly EPIC portrait
Say cheese! Earth got is first full portrait in decades this month when a satellite sent back a gorgeous shot of our blue planet. But is it our best side? NASA says yes. The picture<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shows the entire sunlit side of Earth from 1<span style="color: Red;">*</span>million miles away. It's the first full Earth shot since the astronauts aboard Apollo 17 snapped a similar one in 1972. So who's the photographer? It's EPIC —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>no, really, it's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>EPIC. The photos were taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>EPIC —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on DSCVR, which stands for Deep Space Climate Observatory, which was launched in February. "The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. As it turns out, we're not just a pretty face. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns," he said. "There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore." No selfie stick necessary.
A full image of Earth, as captured aboard the DSCVR satellite earlier this month.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: NASA)
Today in Election 2016:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Ohio Gov. John Kasich officially jumps<span style="color: Red;">*</span>into the 2016 race.
Donald Trump started digging himself out of the hole he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>dug by sort of apologizing to Sen. John McCain (who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam) for saying he wasn't a war hero. But then he gave out<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sen. Lindsey Graham's private cellphone number. Gonna need a bigger shovel.
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