Apple releases online movie service
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Computer launched its highly
anticipated online movie service Tuesday.
The new development in media technology shows off a device
that will make watching videos on television easier for the
consumer.
The iTunes music store will only carry Disney movies
initially. Amazon’s movie service, which was launched
last week, has distribution deals with seven studios.
More than 75 titles will be available, with new releases
priced at $14.99 after the first week and library titles at
$9.99.
“We think it completes the picture here. Now I could
download content from iTunes. I could enjoy it on my
computer, my iPod and my big-screen television in the living
room," said Steve Jobs, Apple CEO.
Jobs said that with iTV, digital content from computers will
be easier to play on televisions.
NYPD builds bomb for terror study
NEW YORK (AP) - To determine how easy it would be for
homegrown terrorists to launch an attack with homemade
explosives, the New York Police department disguised
themselves as apple growers and built a 2,400-pound bomb and
then detonated it.
The experiment occurred in 2004, but was revealed to city
officials Tuesday.
Richard Falkenrath, , the NYPD's top counterterrorism
official, testified n Washington, D.C., before the Senate
committee on homeland security, and said the $7,000 operation
"proved the ease with which the fertilizer can be
legally obtained and used as part of an explosive
device."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the operation
"demonstrated that safeguards are needed to make it
harder to acquire bomb-building material and easier to
regulate and track their sales."
65 bodies found in Baghdad, Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Police found 65 bodies that had been
tortured and shot around Baghdad, and at least 30 people were
killed by car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings in Iraq
Wednesday.
Forty-five of the victims were discovered in predominantly
Sunni Arab parts of western Baghdad, and 15 were found in
mostly Shiite areas of eastern Baghdad.
police 1st Lt. Thayer said these type of torturous killings,
where victims are bound and tortured with power drills before
they are shot, look like the work of death squads, both Sunni
Arab and Shiite.
About 51 people die a day in Baghdad’s capital,
according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.
Two American soldiers were among the number of people
killed, one by an attack in restive Anbar province Monday,
and the other Tuesday by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad,
the U.S. military command said.
Two astronauts begin work on space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - Construction resumed on the
international space station Tuesday for the first time in
over three and a half years.
Astronauts Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
assembled a 17.5 ton section onto the existing
structure.
"I felt today like this is what NASA is supposed to
do," said John McCullough, lead space station flight
director. "This is what we're here to
do."
There was only a small mishap in the process, as a 1.5 inch
bolt came flying off. NASA downplayed the incident claiming
that it was not a significant problem.
There are two more spacewalks planned for later this
week.
Astronauts Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean will head into
space aboard Atlantis on Wednesday.
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