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While scientists worldwide work to develop novel materials to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, researchers from the Loo Lab at Princeton University are... Read More »
German engineering firm Festo revealed the Exohand, a robotic glove system designed to remotely simulate and enhance the gripping capabilities of a human hand, at the ... Read More »
In news broken by Fosspatents and Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook and and Samsun CEO Choi Gee-sung have agreed to meet in mid-May to discuss a settlement in the patent... Read More »
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Sarfraz AhmadI think this is wishful thinking because the parties won't really say that any of their claims are legally weak, no matter in front of whom these talks take place, but there's no way they would ever express even the slightest skepticism over any of their claims in front of a judge involved with the actual litigation
Apr 30, 2012
A busy week in the world of technology and IP, here are the top stories:
Patent Wars: The plot thickens
Early this week, the top tech companies involved in... Read More »
Sheets of carbon-based nanomaterial graphene -- akin to a sheet of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- has some remarkable properties. A single sheet of graphene is just one ... Read More »
Majorana particles, particles that are their own antiparticles, were predicted to exist by Ettore Majorana in 1937. Recently, researchers at the Kavli Institute of... Read More »
Conducting organic molecules allow for the creation of flexible electronic devices such as soar cells and thin-film transistors. The problem is that the wiring... Read More »
A small group at a recent startup weekend pitches their idea for combining simple smartphone technology with a basic sonar sensor to create a wrist-mounted tool to... Read More »
Researchers in the UK and Spain have successfully created the first practical metamaterial sample that interacts with visible light. Metamaterials are a class of... Read More »
Intel recently acquires supercomputing leader Cray Inc. to acquire certain assets related to its high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect program. This... Read More »
Drug delivery is among the most significant obstacles facing modern medicine: the more we manufacture drugs to treat specific unhealthy areas of the human body, the... Read More »
In the past decade the miniaturization of personal technology has irreversibly changed the way we live our lives. Prior to the smartphone market boom that... Read More »
Last Wednesday, April 4, a new Google+ page went online for Google's previously secretive Project Glass. Tech news outlets all over the country ran stories... Read More »
In 2009, those knowledgeable about the forefront of semiconductor research would have forecast dramatic growth in the market for gallium nitride (GaN) devices... Read More »
Last week, 'lab on a chip' researchers at Oregon State University reported the use of carbon nanotubes as a new form of biosensing technology. Their... Read More »
March marks the launch of an important German research group's project to build a better battery for storing energy produced from clean sources. The young... Read More »