Sony Patents a Way to Clone Your Co-op Teammate as an AI Bot
When your co-op partner drops out, you're usually stuck with a generic AI that plays nothing like them. Sony's new patent describes…
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Sony Patents a System That Reads Your Mood Mid-Game to Keep You Playing
Sony is working on a system that reads how you're feeling while you play and sends you a personalized nudge right before…
Disney Patents a Way to Train Theme Park Robots to Act Without a Human Puppeteer
Disney's theme park robots are often controlled by hidden human operators, but a new patent describes a training system that could let…
Microsoft Patent Targets Accurate Stylus Tilt Tracking When Sensor Conditions Change
When you tilt a stylus to shade a sketch, the pen has to know exactly what angle it's at, and that's harder…
Nvidia Patents a Smarter Way to Feed Documents Into AI Search Systems
When an AI assistant searches a long document for an answer, how it slices that document up first turns out to matter…
Google Patent Reveals Smart Home Controls That Prioritize Your Nearest Device
Google is working on a phone feature that watches how close you are to each smart device in your home and automatically…
Disney Patents a System That Shows Engineers Exactly What a Machine Was Doing When It Broke
When a complex machine malfunctions, figuring out what it was doing at the exact moment something went wrong can take hours of…
Apple Patents a System for Fitting Headsets to Different Prescriptions Without Custom Lenses for Everyone
Trying on a Vision Pro when you wear glasses is already awkward. Apple has a plan to make demo sites work for…
Apple Patents a Notification System That Knows When to Get Out of the Way
Your phone buzzes with a suggestion that only made sense five minutes ago. Apple's latest patent targets exactly that failure, building a…
Microsoft Patent Challenges Whether AI Truly Reasons or Simply Memorizes Answers
AI models can look like they're reasoning when they're really just recalling answers they've seen before. Microsoft's new patent describes a system…
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