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A self-driving car that loses its data connection at the wrong moment is a safety problem, not just an inconvenience. Apple's new…

Instead of one AI trying to do everything, Google's new patent describes a system where a "coordinator" AI reads your question…

Most malware detectors look at apps one at a time. Microsoft's new patent wants to build a relationship map — catching threats by…

Imagine being able to take the swaying dance moves from one video clip and automatically apply them to a completely different 3D…

Real-time 3D graphics has a persistent headache: recycle too much lighting data from the last frame and the scene looks laggy…

Tesla is patenting a way to make dashboard panels look like blank, unmarked surfaces — until a backlight switches on and reveals…

Moving data around inside a chip burns a surprising amount of energy — and OpenAI thinks the fix is to stop moving it very far at…

Amazon wants to automate one of the more tedious jobs in a warehouse: checking whether the mobile shelving units that ferry your…

When a chip processes an image in chunks, the edges of each chunk are a headache — every chunk needs to peek at its neighbor to…

AI chatbots famously make things up — and when they're answering questions about your company's live database, that's a serious…

Physical camera filters — think polarizers or neutral-density glass — can shift slightly between shots, and that tiny movement…

When AI models get squeezed down to fit on a phone chip, they often get a little dumber. Qualcomm's new patent tackles that…

Imagine typing a message and having it appear on screen in your own handwriting — not a generic font, but something that actually…

Intel is patenting a purpose-built chip circuit that runs a classic AI technique — the random forest — entirely in hardware,…

AMD is patenting a way for its GPUs to quietly spin up or down their own graphics cores depending on what you're running — so a…

Imagine a customer support agent mid-conversation — before they can even type a reply, the right help article is already on their…

What if a quiz about fractions came wrapped in Star Wars lore, or a reading comprehension lesson used Frozen dialogue? Disney has…