Apple Patent Seeks to Restrict AI 3D Model Creation Using Copyright Markers
Apple is working on a way to attach digital permission slips to ordinary photos, so that when someone tries to turn those…
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New 5G Filing Lets Phones Find Each Other Without a Cell Tower
Most location tech relies on a cell tower or satellite to tell your phone where it is. Apple's new patent describes a…
Google Patent Splits AI Workloads Across Preparation Steps and Accelerator Chips Simultaneously
AI chips are expensive and fast, but they often sit idle waiting for data to arrive. Google's new patent describes a system…
Microsoft Patents a System Requiring Human Sign-Off Before Cloud Servers Are Deleted
Before anyone can spin up, modify, or delete a cloud resource, this system makes sure the right person explicitly says yes. It's…
Qualcomm Patents a Circuit That Kills the Click When Your Audio Chip Switches Power
That faint click or pop you sometimes hear through headphones when a device wakes up or changes volume isn't random noise, it's…
Samsung Patents a Coordinated Power-Failure Shield for Multi-Drive Storage Systems
When a server loses power mid-write, the data in transit can vanish or get corrupted. Samsung's new patent describes a way for…
Nvidia Patents a System That Sends Computing Tasks Through the Fastest Available Connections
When you're running a massive AI job across hundreds of chips, the speed of the cables and connections between those chips matters…
Microsoft Patents a Connector That Deploys and Retracts With a Single Sideways Press
Plugging in a cable is trivial until the port is buried inside a device, mounted in a rack, or awkward to reach.…
Google Patent Targets Real-Time Error Detection in Quantum Computing Systems
Quantum computers make a lot of mistakes, and fixing those mistakes fast enough is one of the hardest unsolved problems in the…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Connects to Three 5G Networks Through One Chip
Fitting three different radio frequency bands onto one compact antenna board is a real engineering headache. Samsung's new patent describes a layered…
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