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The Henderson County sheriff says people who break into homes are taking a big risk, even if their intended victim is an 87-year-old woman.
Sheriff Charles McDonald tells the Asheville Citizen-Times (avlne.ws/NTBIzy) that two men face first-degree burglary charges in connection with the break-in last week at a woman’s Highland Lake community home. He says the two men fled after she displayed a 9mm pistol.
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Cellphones have ushered in an age of interruption, with apps that notify you when you’re mentioned on Facebook or Twitter, or even if your favorite ball team scores a run.
But Apple is the ultimate arbiter of what kinds of notifications iPhone users can receive — and some apps just don’t pass muster with the tech giant.
Take Josh Begley’s idea, for example. Begley created an app that sends a push notification — or beep — to an iPhone whenever there is a U.S. drone strike anywhere in the world.
Apple blocked it from its App Store.
“They said the app has excessively objectionable or crude content,” Begley says. “Which I found somewhat curious, because it is literally just a republishing of news — just tracking when strikes happen.”
The app contains no gory pictures or classified information. (Read more)