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“Android Users Disappointed as Beeper Admits Defeat in iMessage Battle Against Apple”

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Beeper is giving up on its mission to bring iMessage to Android after implementing a series of fixes that Apple has knocked down one by one over the past month. The latest workaround requires users to own or rent a jailbroken iPhone to get iMessage working via Beeper. You then need to install a Beeper tool to generate an iMessage registration code, then update to the latest Beeper Mini app and enter your code. The process is quite complicated and significantly takes away from the original appeal of Beeper, which was supposed to provide an easy way to bring iMessage to Android. Although Beeper is done trying to bring iMessage to Android, the company says it’s “shifting focus back to our long-term goal of building the best chat app on earth” in the new year.

Massachusetts Legislators Consider Legislation Regarding ‘Lethal Automatons’

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More recently, the potential use of weaponized robots by law enforcement has been a political lightning rod in places like Oakland and San Francisco. Earlier this week, I spoke about the bill with Massachusetts state representative Lindsay Sabadosa, who filed it alongside Massachusetts state senator Michael Moore. Does the bill apply to law enforcement as well? And what we’ve heard from law enforcement repeatedly is that they’re often used to deescalate situations. We haven’t had law enforcement weaponize robots, and no one has said, “We’d like to attach a gun to a robot” from law enforcement in Massachusetts.