Elon Musk picks a fight with Apple

Plus: A small tweak to genes may finally enable us to regrow cartilage. Dec 01, 2022 [Blueprint]( Since his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk has been making headlines for internal company moves. Now, Musk seems to have shifted focus to external factors, stating in a tweet on Monday that Apple threatened to [withhold Twitter from the App Store](. Musk further claimed that his reaction to Apple was, in fact, a defense of free speech in the U.S. “This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead,” read one of the other tweets he sent on the same day. But before diving deeper into the latest developments in Elon Musk’s turbulent management of Twitter, let’s have a look at our [video of the day](. Who knows? It may even make you reach the speed of light. Good morning. I’m Mert, an Editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s get started. Last Sunday, Blueprint subscribers had scientists’ insights on the latest internal combustion engine developments. This week they’ll look into the amazing world of bioengineered plants. Don't miss out — [subscribe to IE+]( today to receive exclusive interviews, features, and much more. [Play]VIDEO OF THE DAY [Teams film the speed of light at 10 trillion frames per second]( [The world's fastest camera.]( The world's fastest camera has filmed the speed of light. [Must Read]MUST READ [Elon Musk picks up a fight with Apple - but why?]( [Elon Musk.]( [Elon Musk.]( Getty Images Elon Musk might have just propped himself as the [new face of the anti-Apple group]( working to counter the iPhone maker's monopoly in the app market. [In a tweet]( Musk accused Apple of threatening to withhold Twitter from the App Store without giving any specific reason and called it censorship. Since his Twitter acquisition, Elon Musk has primarily been in the news for the things that have happened inside the social media company, whether it is firing half of the workforce or asking the remaining crew to commit more hours of work at a higher intensity to build a new version of the social media company. On Monday, though, Musk appeared more focused on external factors that could affect his newly acquired social media company, and his target was none other than the world's most publicly valued company, Apple. The tension between Musk and Tim Cook didn't last long, though. "Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so," Musk said in a tweet he sent Thursday. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [HEALTH]HEALTH [A small tweak to genes may finally enable us to regrow cartilage]( A study led by The Forsyth Institute has revealed very recently that future treatments for cartilage injuries and degeneration may benefit greatly from novel methods for producing cartilage cells. We may finally be able to rebuild cartilage with a simple change to our genes, says the study. Takamitsu Maruyama, Daigaku Hasegawa, senior author Wei Hsu, and others reveal two ground-breaking discoveries, including a new understanding of the multifaceted protein -catenin. “The goal of this study,” said Dr. Maruyama of Forsyth Institute, “was to figure out how to regenerate cartilage. We wanted to determine how to control cell fate, to cause the somatic cell to become cartilage instead of bone.” [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [SCIENCE]SCIENCE [In a first, scientists created a holographic wormhole and sent a message through it]( A collaborative team of researchers in the U.S. created a [holographic wormhole]( and sent a message through it. This is the first known report of a quantum simulation of a holographic wormhole on a quantum processor. Since the quantum system used in the experiment is rather small, it does not teach us anything that we do not know or compute something that is not possible with the computation power at our disposal these days. Nevertheless, it sets the stage for future work in this direction and would help us test theories of quantum gravity, where both general relativity and quantum mechanics can be studied together. 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[READ MORE [Arrow]]( [MAIL & MUSINGS]MAIL & MUSINGS The tension between Musk and Apple seems to have subsided. If Twitter was excluded from Apple's AppStore, would you consider switching your phones? [Definitely]( [Nope. 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