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Microsoft Files Patent to Create Chatbots That Imitate Dead People - IGN
Microsoft has filed a patent that would allow the company to digitally revive deceased loved ones as chatbots, using the individual's personal information.
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BlackBerry sells off 90 smartphone patents to Huawei
According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, ownership of the patents was transferred to Huawei on December 23rd.
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Senators Tell The USPTO To Remove The Arbitrary Obstacles Preventing Inventors (Especially Women Inventors) From Getting Patents
There are plenty of issues with the patent system as we know it today, but one big one is with the system we use to award them. It's a problem because the more important we think patents are, the more important it is to ensure that the mechanism...
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Leaker Claims AirPods Pro 2 Could Come in Multiple Sizes
Apple may have just released the AirPods Max, but it seems Apple is already working on the next addition to its headphone line with a new version of the AirPods Pro that for the first time might come in multiple sizes.
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Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
How does talking to a digital approximation of your dearly departed in the not-too-distant future sound?
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Nikola patented a stolen truck design, Tesla claims in legal response
Two years ago, hydrogen-truck startup Nikola sued Tesla claiming that the Tesla Semi was a knockoff of Nikola's own truck design. On Wednesday, Tesla filed a response in the case accusing Nikola of basing its own truck on a 2010 concept by designer Adriano Mudri. Mudri is now director of design at the Croatian automaker Rimac.
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Apple investigating Pro Display XDR nano-texture glass for iPhone and iPad
Apple is researching expanding the nano-texture glass that it introduced on the Pro Display XDR, to bring the technology's benefit of greater anti-reflective properties to the iPhone or iPad. Apple introduced the optional nano-texture glass surface with the Pro Display XDR, and then more recently brought it to the 27-inch iMac. Now it appears to be planning to deploy it on portable devices, including the iPhone and iPad.
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Apple may add infrared thermal imaging to the iPhone to help AR accuracy
Future iPhones could use thermal or infrared imaging to supplement regular vision cameras, making it easier to use Apple AR in dark or busy environments. Apple really wants us to get away from the idea of AR involving us covering our heads with giant goggles and standing on the spot as games move around us. Instead, it's been looking at less obtrusive headsets like "Apple Glass," and now it is also investigating how to solve the extra problems that movement brings.
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Apple wants your iPhone to replace your passport and driver's license
The next step in Apple's goal of making the iPhone the sole thing anyone has to carry, continues with the device being able to securely replace passports, driver's licenses, and other physical forms of identification.
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The Scientist and the Spy — intellectual property and industrial espionage - The China Story
In the current climate of escalating competition and tension between the United States and China on the technology front, Mara Hvistendahl’s The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage is a very timely book that illuminates the various facets of the nexus between intellectual property protection, industrial espionage and national security.
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Sony Patent Suggests AI Could One Day Take Over if a Multiplayer Opponent Ragequits
The technology behind the patent would seek to eliminate the headache of ruined multiplayer matches when a player rage quits or is disconnected.
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Apple granted patent for software that would let you take socially distant group selfies
Do it for the ‘gram but not in person
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Whoever invents a coronavirus vaccine will control the patent – and, importantly, who gets to use it
A unique challenge is emerging in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine: how to balance intellectual property rights with serving the public good. Unfortunately, very few pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations are participating in the pledge.
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How Patent Abuse Could Hurt the Fight Against the Pandemic
You probably don’t remember the day the White House issued its 2013 open access memo, but I’ll never forget it. That’s the rule that requires any research funded by the federal government to be made available to the public one year (at most) after publication. I was working back then at Creative Commons, an organization that advocates for strong open access policies. I remember saying to a colleague, “Well, time to find a new cause.”
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US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
Following similar decisions from European agencies.
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Apple planning flexible batteries for foldable iPhone or iPad
New research from Apple details many different ways of making batteries flexible enough to be used with foldable displays in an iPhone or iPad, or to save space inside regular devices.
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Apple investigating reinforced plastic as case material for future Apple Watch
While the device's chief components would remain the same, future Apple Watches may come with a housing that is made in part from plastic and ceramic fibres.
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Apple planning Face ID for MacBook Pro and iMac -- plus a notch
Just as Touch ID began on its iPhone before spreading to iPad, and then both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, so Face ID is coming to Apple's range of Macs. It's been rumored before, and Apple has said that Face ID will come to more devices, but a new patent application is the first to specify that it will be brought to some form of MacBook.
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Apple isn't planning on limiting CarPlay just to a car's head unit
While CarPlay saw its first major overhaul with iOS 13 in 2019, future versions may look radically different. A new patent application shows Apple looking to integrate CarPlay much more deeply into cars. To present its navigation information, especially, to drivers in the most useful, and least distracting way, future CarPlay may display its information in the car's regular dashboard controls.
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Apple fails to invalidate Caltech patent tied to $1.1B lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a 2018 decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that upheld the validity of U.S. Patent No. 7,116,710, granted to Caltech in 2006, reports Bloomberg Law. Apple in a parallel filing challenged the wireless technology patent covering data coding systems on grounds that the invention is obvious and therefore not eligible for protection under patent law.
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