Apple Patents Screen Touch Detection That Keeps Working When Water Gets On It
Touchscreens and water have never gotten along well. Apple is working on a fix built directly into the display's light sensors.
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Apple Patents a Way to Summon Its AI Assistant Inside a Virtual World
When you call up Siri in a virtual reality headset, where exactly does it appear? Apple has a specific answer: outside your…
Apple Patents a System That Compares Your Current Route to Your Past Trips in Real Time
Apple is working on a way for your phone to recognize that you're on a familiar route and instantly pull up how…
Apple Patents Glasses That Automatically Tighten Their Grip on Your Nose
Apple is working on eyewear that can sense when it's slipping and physically clamp down on your nose to stay in place.…
Apple Patents a Stylus That Changes How It Tracks Itself When It Touches a Surface
When a stylus touches a surface, one dimension of movement becomes irrelevant. Apple has filed a patent for a tracking system smart…
Apple Files Patent for Finding the Next Wi-Fi Hotspot Before Your Connection Drops
Every time your phone silently switches from one Wi-Fi access point to another in your office or home, there's a brief moment…
Google Patents a Way to Let AI Chips Talk to Each Other Without a Central Coordinator
When you're training a massive AI model, getting dozens of chips to cooperate without a traffic jam is one of the hardest…
New Patent Reveals How Google Trims Web Content for AI
When Google's AI reads a webpage to answer your question, it doesn't need the whole thing. A new patent describes a system…
Google Patents a Screenshot Tool That Copies Text and Keeps Its Formatting
Copying text from a screenshot has always meant losing all the formatting. Google is patenting a way to fix that, pulling text…
Google Patent Automatically Generates Ad Copy From Website Content
Google has patented a system that automatically reads a website, summarizes it, and uses that summary as a guardrail for writing ad…
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