J. Cole Gets Caught In The Act in 'She Knows' Video

J. Cole gets caught trying to get a piece of that apple pie in his new video for his latest single, ‘She Knows.’

The newly minted Dreamville Records honcho continues his impeccable knack of storytelling in the Sam Pilling-directed visual.

Starring Harold Perrineau (‘The Best Man Holiday’) and Rochelle Aytes (‘CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story’), the clip follows a teenager who plays hooky from school with his friend. The duo spends the day smoking, drinking and skating, only to find the fun and games comes to a holt when a police officer finds he and his friend committing truancy.

After losing the cop from a brief chase on foot, the boy finds himself back at home catching J. Cole creeping with this pretty young thing he chose — his mother.

Watch the dramatic video above.

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App Smart: In Case of Emergency: My Cellphone Knows What to Do

The American Red Cross has an app that can alert you to common natural disasters so you can prepare in advance. The free Earthquake app for iOS or Android, for instance, has a main page with a big “alert” button that brings up information on global earthquake activity or notifies you about areas you have programmed in. This makes it handy for warnings about your own location or that of a relative living elsewhere. If an alert is issued, your phone can inform you automatically. The app’s “prepare” menu tells you what to do when you get an alert, during an earthquake and immediately after. If you are inside a building, for example, it will tell you to “drop, cover and hold on.” The sections are clearly written and easy to follow.

This app and its peers are specific to one disaster type — there’s also one for tornadoes, one for hurricanes, another for wildfires and more. This means if you live in an area vulnerable to more than one kind of natural disaster, you may have to set up several apps.

Among apps that can help you deal with a medical emergency, one of the most comprehensive is the $2 iOS app Army First Aid. This app contains information on a wide range of first aid situations, including injuries, shock and snake bites. It is set up in chapters, like a book, and each section is written in plain English and illustrated.

While the app covers a large number of first aid situations, it could take a while to dig through its pages to find what you need in an emergency. You may also dislike its brusque military style. A great alternative is the Pocket First Aid & CPR app, $2 on iOS, which covers fewer emergencies but offers quick access to step-by-step instructions for more everyday situations, like an allergic reaction.

Knowing someone’s medical information can be critical in an emergency, and many apps let you store this data. A useful one is called ICE Standard-Auto Edition, a $1 iOS app. Enter personal details, like your name, emergency contact and important allergies or medical ailments, and the app automatically displays the information in an easily read format. The app can also generate an image of the data for use as your phone’s lockscreen. Emergency responders can read this without unlocking your device.

This app includes an auto section where you can enter data about your car, and a large “I’ve been in an accident” button guides you through what to do in that situation. There’s even a form for entering accident data like vehicle IDs and weather conditions.

The Android edition of the app is free, but does not contain the auto accident section.

For an emergency that forces you to seek shelter, food or water, Britain’s elite special forces unit offers the SAS Survival Guide, a $6 iOS and Android app. The app’s main page is a grid of icons that take you to subsections filled with survival information, covering essentials like drinking water and finding “wild food.”

The app is expensive, however, and while it does have information on first aid, you may find a dedicated first aid app more sensible. These apps may contain more up-to-date information based on current guidelines.

Your smartphone can also act as a signal beacon in case of an emergency, whether through its bright screen or a built-in photo flash. On iOS, the free app Flashlight O can send out a bright light or the internationally known S.O.S. message in Morse code, and it has a built-in compass. On Android, the free app Flashlight SOS FlashText is similar. If your device has no flash, it can turn your screen’s brightness to the maximum, and it can send short messages in Morse code.

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Weathertron is a new and novel weather app that costs $1 on iOS. It combines up-to-date information and forecasts into a neat-looking infographic. The idea is to present a lot of weather data at a glance.

Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: How Chrome Knows Where You Are

Q. How does the Chrome browser know where I am geographically when I see my city listed on the side of the Google search page?

Google’s Chrome, like other browsers, uses network information from the computer to figure out your approximate location and then matches it up in a location database. This information can include the nearby Wi-Fi network routers (including the one you are using) and their signal strength, as well as your computer’s Internet Protocol (I.P.) address. (Google often used the cars that took picture for Street View maps to collect information on Wi-Fi’s. )

Some Web sites may also ask to use your location information for the purpose of showing you local listings and advertisements, but you can opt out. Google has an explanation of location sharing in the Chrome Help pages on its site.

Don't Worry, HP Knows It Must Make a Smartphone

Good old Hewlett Packard won't stop building boring, mid-range office-bound PCs anytime soon, but in case you were anxiously wondering whether they might one day build a smartphone, you can relax: as CEO Meg Whitman told Fox Business, they realize they "have to."

Why? As Whitman goes on to explain, that's "because in many countries of the world [a smartphone] is your first computing device."

So will HP's arrival in the market be anything to write home about? We doubt it. As fiercely as phone makers compete these days, the chances of HP showing up this late to the party with anything new or exciting are pretty slim. Unless you own HP stock you're probably safe forgetting all about it.

Whitman's statement comes the same week HP announced its expanded layoff plan for the next year and a half - from 27,000 to 29,000 employees.

Does HP have a prayer in the smartphone market? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Fox Business

Jon Fox is a Seattle hipster who loves polar bears and climbing trees. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN.