Google Patent Blocks Apps From Secretly Capturing Audio After Content Playback
Imagine an app flashing you an ad and then immediately grabbing whatever the microphone picks up right after. Google has filed a…
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Samsung Patent Enables Two Apps to Run Simultaneously in Foreground
Most phones can show two apps at the same time, but only one is really 'active' at any moment. Samsung's new patent…
Google Patent Filing Reveals Waveguide Design That Could Shrink AR Glasses Lenses
One of the biggest reasons AR glasses still look like ski goggles is the optics inside them. Google is now patenting a…
Google Patent Targets Malicious Scripts With Pre-Stored Rules Before They Reach Users
Every time you load a web app, your browser checks a set of rules that decide which scripts are allowed to run.…
Microsoft Patents an Iterative Block-Splitting Method for Spatial Data Compression
Microsoft has filed a patent for a compression technique that chops spatial data into smaller and smaller pieces, encoding each chunk in…
Tesla Patent Replaces Battery Metal Tabs With a Folded Electrode Edge
Tesla is filing patents on a battery electrode design that folds the metal foil into a hem along its edge, eliminating the…
Amazon Patents Technology to Stop Cloud Data From Arriving Scrambled
When your cloud server sends thousands of data packets at once, they don't always arrive in the right order. Amazon is patenting…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Keeps AR Glasses Streaming Smoothly Without Draining the Battery
Running AR or VR on a headset is brutally power-hungry, so the heavy computer-vision work gets pushed to a server. The catch:…
Nvidia Patent Locks Secret Codes Inside Chips So Software Cannot Steal Them
Even software running on the same chip normally can't be fully trusted with your encryption keys. Nvidia's latest patent describes a system…
Amazon Patents a System That Forces Cloud Access Steps Into a Fixed Order
What if a stolen cloud key became nearly useless because it could only be used in one very specific order? That's the…
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