Hoverboards.

Hoverboards, or two wheeled electric self balancing scooters, are a new trend today.  For kids or teens who are too young to drive, many of them have these hoverboards.  The hoverboards are very useful for getting around big places, or just to go to your neighborhood park.  The majority of the consumers that use the hoverboards think that they are very safe and it is very rare that something goes wrong,  That is true, but it is only based on if you have a real name brand one, like iOHawk or PhunkyDuck, which are usually better quality.  The fake ones are the ones that usually have safety issues.  But here is an example of what can go wrong.  Timothy Cade from Gulf Shores Alabama was just casually riding his hoverboard when it caught on fire while he was riding.  The first thing he did was film it on his phone and then started putting it out with water.  The batteries started beeping and then his hoverboard blew up.  After this, Cade started doing more research and checked lots of stuff before buying himself a new one.  On most hoverboards, the batteries are near under the wheels, which is where his started catching fire.  Sadly, he has not gotten a refund, but is still working on it.  So if you are thinking of buying a hoverboard, just make sure you get what you pay for.

Paris Massacre

On a quiet night in Paris, where thousands of people were traveling and there were many tourists watching a soccer match between France and Germany, when suddenly horror struck.  There were the sounds of explosions, and gun shots going off all over the place.  There were people with assault rifles, and three suiciders with bomb vests on them.  ISIS claims responsibility for these attacks.  Five of the suspects have been neutralized, but it is still unclear if it is the terrorists or not, and if there are any left. At least 128 people were killed in this massacre, some just young teenagers, enjoying a good rock concert at the concert hall.  In Bataclan alone, there were 80 left dead.  The people at the concert were laying down on the floor as people were shot dead for somewhere around ten to twenty minutes.  Blood was flying everywhere.  Some lucky people on the higher floors had the chance to escape, as the terrorists went back outside to reload their guns, just to kill tons of more people.  People were hearing them talking about Iraq and Syria.  This was a very scare moment for the people of France.  France, declared by the president, is now in a state of emergency.  Their borders are closed and no one can come in now.  It was a very, very sad time, and hopefully the terrorist missions are shut down.

UFO SIGHTING?

This weekend in Coachella Valley, California, many people in the area saw a weird light flying over their heads, many even capturing a video. It was a bright white light and it had a blue trail.  Many people got scared, thinking that it might have been a UFO.  Some other people though, thought it might have been an asteroid or meteor.  There was a lot of commotion going around, and people wondering what was happening,  But shortly after, the mystery of the mysterious light was solved by the US Navy.  The US Navy announced that it a Trident test missile, that was fired from a submarine on the coast of Southern California.  It was told that this missile test was to help contribute to their systems, and improve their capabilities.  There was also some rumors going around that it was part of the Taurid meteor shower, which was told that sometimes has fireballs.  This caused lots of commotion, as social media such as Twitter and Instagram were blowing up with pictures and videos of this light.  But now that the US Navy  cleared it up, people now know and are feeling much safer!

Droid Turbo 2

This week, Motorola released the Droid Turbo 2 in New York City.The Droid Turbo 2 has a 5.4-inch 2560×1440 resolution AMOLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, 3GB of RAM with 32 or 64GB of storage and a 3760mAh battery. It has a 21 mega pixel back camera, and a 5 mega pixel front camera. One of the biggest things about the Droid Turbo 2 is that it is completely shatterproof!  The glass does not shatter, no matter what you do to it because Motorola used 5 layers.  The worst that happens to them is a few dents. 

After the release, they were available for two days so people can have an idea of how it is.  Though this phone is shatterproof, it is not as good as most smart phones these days.  It only has 3 GB of Ram, which is not as much, and adding just one more gigabyte can make the difference, as people will probably have this phone for a while.  To compare to an iPhone, iPhone's usually break at around 5 or more feet, and if not, they at least get major dents.  Now the Droid Turbo 2 doesn't even break around 50 feet, which is really high! So if you are looking for a strong (externally) phone, but does not look so good on the outside, I recommend getting the Droid Turbo 2.

iOS 9 Jailbreak

   Many Apple users have upgraded to the newest software, iOS 9-9.1.  There are also many people who love to jailbreak their phone and make it as customized as they want.  If you do not know what a jailbreak is, it is a (legal) hack that you can download on your Apple device to customize your phone in many different ways!  Before iOS 9, iOS 8.1.2 was the latest software you can jailbreak, as iOS 8.1.3 and 8.1.4 were patched.  And with all the new features in iOS 9, many people wanted to update, but others wanted to have a jailbreak.  There were many rumors going around that Apple upgraded their software to make it almost impossible to jailbreak.  But that was proven wrong, as shortly after the official release of iOS 9, jailbreak team Pangu released their own iOS 9 compatible jailbreak.

  This came as a surprise, as it came out so soon.  But of course, this came with a downside.  Many of the most popular tweaks, which are different options you can download with a jailbreak, among the jailbreak community are not fully compatible with iOS 9.  But there are many new tweaks that come along with it.  Such as new themes, which you download to customize the icons and entire look of your iPhone.  But there is one big reason about why people who do not have an iPhone 6S, with the new 3D touch jailbreak their phone.  Not too long after the jailbreak was released, a brand new tweak was released as well.  What this tweak does is allow you to get that 3D touch on any lower model iPhone's, that do not originally come with it.  There is also another tweak that allows you to take live photos, that move when you hold on them.  With all these new features that you can get with a simple 10-30 minute jailbreak process, you can save the money of buying an iPhone 6s. So, if you want to impress your friends with some iPhone 6s features on your iPhone 5, just jailbreak your phone and look up a tutorial online to do so!

Lamar Odom

      Lamar Odom has recently been in a coma for three days, after a drug overdose.  Lamar Odom is a basketball player who played on the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers.  Doctors say that he is little by little coming out of his coma, which is to them miraculous!  On Friday, he woke up and spoke for the first time since Tuesday. He is still on a dialysis because of a kidney failure.  He has suffered a lot of brain damage, and the doctors don't know how much until he is fully awake.  He was able to say "good morning" and give a thumbs up to Khloe Kardashian.

  Odom had an ischemic stroke, which is caused when you have a blood clot stopping the blood flow to the brain, and is many times in relation to an overdose of drugs, specifically cocaine. He is now breathing all on his own, but is still wearing a non rebreather mask, which is a mask that pumps oxygen into his body, when previously he had to use a ventilator.  After an EKG test, it showed that his heart is on a normal beat, and his blood presure is also good. Hopefully, after all of this, Lamar Odom will be all good without any much harm done.

Los Angeles Upgrades Their Earthquake Safety

     On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council adopted the nations strongest earthquake safety laws.  This made the owners of about 15, 000 require to make their structure and outline stronger.  A study shows that if Los Angeles is hit with a really large earthquake, that anywhere from 3,000 to 18,000 people can get killed, and there will be lots of money lost for damage of buildings and other things.  It is also shown that the two weakest type of buildings are soft concrete buildings and wood apartments, with a very weak first floor.    Many of the upgrades will cost $60,000 to $130,000 per building and lots of money for the bigger ones.  

     If they fail to complete the upgrades, there will be many deaths in the next earthquake, and many houses will be destroyed.  Wood apartment buildings have seven years to fix their structure, and ones with brittle concrete buildings have twenty-five years.  This law also allowed owners to make their rents a high $75 a month to help pay for these hefty costs. People with concrete buildings will have a much larger price to pay.  Los Angeles decided to pass the  law because  in 2011, the fall of two concrete towers killed 133 people, which made them realize that they need to upgrade their standards.  

     The Los Angeles Times team found out that there are more than one thousand buildings that are made out of concrete, most in such places as Westwood and Ventura Boulevard, two very busy commercial districts.  Only 68 of those thousand buildings were retrofitted.  This helped Eric Garcetti begin a very expensive campaign to help with earthquake safety.  Concrete buildings are the deadliest, because when they fall, they kill many people.  Hopefully not too many people get injured from now on!

Israel at United Nations

    On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced to the United Nations to try and launch an assault on the nuclear deal we made with Iran, saying that Israel will never let them create any nuclear weapons.  Israel has warned everyone that they are prepared to use the force of their military so Iran cannot get any more stronger weapons.  Iran, however, does not agree and says that they want their nuclear weapons because their program is peaceful.  

     Barack Obama and his staff have very thoroughly defended their agreement with Iran, though Republicans have tried to kill the deal, and Israel is saying that it can star a new war in the Middle East.   Obama has already ruined his relationship with Netanyahu months before they made the deal, because of Israel's campaign against it.  Netanyahu said that doing this deal will cause a lot of destruction.  He held up a book, written by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, which was a 400 page book, saying that he planned to destroy Israel.

     Netanyahu accused the General Assembly and United Nations as an engaging incessant, and unjustified targeting Israel. He made it clear that Israel will use their military forces to prevent attacks from Syria and Iran to destroy them. Hopefully, none of this happens, as if it does, World War III will break out, and who knows how long it will last...

Black Ops 3

Big news has been announced for you gamers out there!  If you did not know, Treyarch, the company that makes Call of Duty games, has not too long ago released the trailer for their newest game, soon to be released -  Black Ops 3!  This game introduces many new features, such as running on walls, a much more advanced customization system, and many more items and guns to use while playing multiplayer.  For a short period of time, a beta was released on the X Box and PlayStation.
                  But with all this good stuff, comes bad news for people with an X Box 360 or PlayStation 3.  One of the biggest and most favorable part of most shooting games are the campaign option, which is a mode where you go and play through a story, and try to complete it.  But what is so bad about that?  Well, it has been announced, that on old generation consoles, the X Box 360 and PlayStation 3, that the campaign feature will not be available on them!  The good thing about this is that the price has been reduced for these two consoles, to fifty dollars, ten dollars cheaper that the normal version for X Box 1 and PlayStation 4.  The graphics on the older console will also be much worse, and the feature to customize your gun(s) on multiplayer will not be available.  Activision and Sony have also made a limited edition console of Black Ops 3 for the PlayStaion 4, which looks really amazing!  Also, if you buy Black Ops 3 on the launch, it will come with one of the fan favorite maps, Nuk3town, which has been greatly redesigned to fit the year 2065 setting, since Black Ops 2 in 2012.  So, if you have an X Box 360 or PlayStation 3 and want Black Ops 3 when it gets released, make sure to upgrade before it comes out!

New Apple Products

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog, where I will post various information and news about different things that happen throughout the world. On September 9th, Apple had a keynote event, where they released many new stuff such as iOS 9, the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, the Apple Watch 2, and the new iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil.  This large event was held at Cupertino, San Francisco.  The biggest thing that they announce was the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.  The biggest feature of the iPhone 6s is 3D touch, or force touch.  What this does is that if you hold down an application, you can do many stuff quicker and much more simpler.  They also upgraded the camera to 12 megapixels, which a big difference.  The front facing camera has also been upgraded to a 5 megapixel camera, which is also a major difference.  They also upgraded the hardware to a 64-bit A9 chip, which works really well and before this, was only found in desktop computers.  This chip makes the phone 70-90% faster!  A new color was also released, called rose gold, which looks like pink, along with a much stronger glass, the strongest on the iPhone ever!  Another big release was iOS 9, which is a big difference from iOS 8.4.1.  iOS 9 includes a smarter and more improved Siri, and on the iPad a feature to use two apps at once.  There have been five beta versions for iOS 9, all with more improvements and bug fixes, until Apple final released the final version. iOS 9 has an extra hour of battery on it, and when updating, you get back almost 1 Gigabyte of space returned to your phone! One more thing that made many people happy is Low Power Mode.  What this does is that when you turn it on, it reduces many things in the software of the phone to help save battery if yours is low.  There are also many new things you can do in the Notes app, you can save websites as PDF files, and quickly request the desktop version of any websites.  Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you enjoyed it and learned many new stuff.