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The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, claiming the tech titan abused its monopoly in the smartphone market by imposing unfair practices for developers, blocking super-apps and cloud-streaming apps, and prohibiting tap-to-pay services outside of their own.But on page 38, prosecutors get to the real juicy stuff: Apple’s long-standing assault on Android users via…

Bouncing Bubbles Boost BoilingA new surface uses tiny gaps to supercharge bubble formation to transfer heatBy Rachel Berkowitz Credit: Vsevolod Vlasenko/Getty ImagesBubbles rising through boiling water are among nature's best tools for carrying excess heat away from a surface. And now there's a better way to boil: make tinier, speedier bubbles that work in pairs.It won't help you make a cup of tea faster. But a new microstructured surface, created by Virginia Tech engineer Jonathan Boreyko and his colleagues to produce…

Google just released the latest Android 14 QPR3 Beta 1 update, so it doesn’t seem like the company is working on Android 15. However, that’s not the case. News about the next Android upgrade is starting to become more abundant. For example, Android 15 could make app archiving better on Android. According to a new report, Android 15 could make floating chat bubbles much better. For a while, Android allowed you to house your chat conversations in floating bubbles on the display. This is something popularized by Facebook…

Composite metal foams (CMFs) are foams that consist of hollow, metallic spheres – made of materials such as stainless steel or titanium – embedded in a metallic matrix made of steel, titanium, aluminum or other metallic alloys. The resulting material is both lightweight and remarkably strong, with potential applications ranging from aircraft wings to vehicle armor and body armor. In addition, CMF is better at insulating against high heat than conventional metals and alloys, such as steel. The combination of weight,…

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Listen to article(2 minutes)After nearly 10 years, my husband, Will, finally joined the Nguyen family iMessage chat.Will, a staunch Android user, infiltrated the group earlier this month using Beeper Mini. This fresh app promises the previously impossible: turning green-bubble Android texts into blue-bubble iMessages. Unlike other workarounds, Beeper Mini initially didn’t rely on a server, a Mac or an iPhone.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to…

Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedI guess you should go ahead and buy your mom that iPhone, just like Apple CEO Tim Cook once told a reporter asking questions about Apple’s dreaded blue bubbles. Gizmodo took the…

Hell has frozen over — iMessage is now available on Android, thanks to some incredible reverse engineering from the team at Beeper.This isn’t a false alarm, you can send iMessages to your friends with iPhones from your Android device without even having an Apple ID, and the best bit? It’s using Apple’s servers with no middleman involved — thanks for nothing, Nothing.We’ll get into the nitty gritty of how Beeper Mini allows you to use iMessage on Android later in this article, but for now (I can’t believe I’m writing…

For years, companies have tried making iMessage available on Android so that Android users can stop the green bubbles on iPhones. Over the years, we have seen many different approaches to this, including logging into a Mac Mini in a server farm somewhere – which is really shady, seeing as you’re logging into your Apple ID on a computer you cannot access. But today, Beeper Mini changes all of that. Beeper, whose app has been available with a waitlist, has now launched a new app that has no waitlist – called Beeper Mini.…

Nano-sized bubbles allow macrophages to stand out from their fellow cells in ultrasound imagery. Credit: Jennifer M. McCann/Materials Research Institute/Penn StatePenn State scientists develop an innovative bubble-based method for observing immune cells in action.Macrophages, small but essential cells in the immune system, hold promise for cell-based therapies in numerous health conditions. Unlocking the full potential of macrophage therapies depends on our ability to observe their activities within the body. Now,…