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Getting a whole extra second added to your day might sound like a great thing -- okay it doesn’t really sound that great -- but if you're a programmer or... Read More »
Sorry for any mathematicians out there who are fans of police brutality, but cops aren’t literally beating criminals with math. Boring as it may be, the police... Read More »
First proposed in 1984 -- the year not the novel -- quantum key distribution (QKD) has gotten a second look from researchers at the Institute of Physics and German... Read More »
If you’ve ever been curious what students at Tsinghua University in China do in their spare time you can stop, because apparently they build and test the... Read More »
The '662 patent is owned by Parallel Iron, whose attorneys have recently filed suit against Internet giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and even some... Read More »
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Wes Boudville[continued from previous posting] but no one did, then this can be used precisely as an argument for non-obviousness.
Feb 26, 2015
Wes BoudvilleBecause no one invented the invention prior to the actual filing date, and all the starting points of the patent were present. This is related to a recent quote by a Supreme Court jurist who said regarding non-obviousness that for any patent, anyone who objected to it could merely say, after disclosure, that the patent was obvious. It is never enough to say that it is obvious. One has to raise more precise points about the patent vis a vis the prior art. And one of the arguments for non-obviousness that can be made by the patent inventor is like judo - what I mentioned above.
Feb 26, 2015
Cloud computing is quickly shaping up to be the biggest thing since the invention of the Internet. The mid-90s dream of an open data stream containing just about... Read More »
Limited space and battery power has traditionally forced large amounts of energy-intensive RAM to be left out of smartphones and tablet computers -- but no more. Tel... Read More »
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has made a major breakthrough in understanding the structure of ferroelectric... Read More »
Nearly everyone is looking for an alternative to dino juice. Still, nothing has broken through yet as a mainstream alternative. Detroit's electric cars have made... Read More »
Earlier this week, Sony announced its acquisition of California-based video game streaming company Gaikai for $380 million, a move that the Japanese company says is... Read More »
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It’s opening night and the show is about to begin. The performers are warming up, getting ready for the spectacle of a lifetime. Google, Amazon... Read More »
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Daniel PorterLooks like NYC is stepping up it's Wifi game above ground, too: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/07/11/nyc-wifi-hotspots-hit-streets/
Jul 12, 2012
Beaming 2.5 terabytes per second across a meter of air, an international team of researchers has cracked large scale wireless transmitting. The group managed the feat by ... Read More »
Armed with a 1.8 gigapixel camera rig, A U.S. Army Hummingbird copters over Afghanistan looking for suspicious insurgent activity. On board, a robo cameraman called... Read More »
Last week a federal jury found that Google did not commit patent infringement on two Oracle patents in question. In a unanimous verdict, the 10-member jury dashed... Read More »
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Daniel PorterHoorah for open source! The last thing we need is an extensive software patent war on our hands as well, so with some luck this will start to nip it in the bud. I wonder if, as you suggest, this sort of decision will have any impact on the technological patent wars, with their pre-established rhetoric of fair use?
May 29, 2012
Here's your weekly wrap up of the top medical news!
Baby kept alive with world’s smallest artificial heart
Italian doctors are reporting that... Read More »
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Aurora SterlingThe connections between industry and research are always interesting
Jul 5, 2012
Stanford University researchers Jerome Bonnet, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Drew Endy have developed a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data... Read More »
Cloud computing has been a buzzworthy trend for so long that it's now simply a movement in progress. Our files and apps are rapidly migrating from our hard drives ... Read More »
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Leonard PrietWith better virtualization technology, maybe the drive to miniaturize will find less motivation? Going forward, as long as there's enough room in data centers, our smartphones will only need enough processing capability to get data back-and-forth to the cloud.
May 23, 2012
James Lee PhillipsIt's a fair point about ubiquitous high-speed Internet; I'm especially fascinated by Harald Haas and Fraunhofer's VLC "lightbulb" connectivity. It seems we've been on the verge of real uninterrupted "everywhere" high-speed Internet for some time. Perhaps there's room for a conspiracy theory about wireless data carriers holding back innovation?
Jun 1, 2012
Google’s come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can’t buy ‘em, copy ‘em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its... Read More »
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Anonymous Well Microsoft also said Internet explorer was an extension of their Windows and that's how they managed to keep the competition away: by providing the IE for free.
May 6, 2012
Javier DelgadoI fail to see Doogle drive as a replacement of google docs, instead is really and extension of google docs.
May 6, 2012
YOU are the product. This is the not-so-secret wisdom that accompanies the inevitable question of how some online ventures can become profitable.
Like the 20th... Read More »
"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can ... Read More »