Google Patent Reveals Scored Social Media Posts May Appear in Search Results
Google is exploring a system that would pull in posts from social platforms and rank them alongside regular web results. The twist…
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Google Patents a Way to Teach AI When to Say 'The Answer Isn't Here'
AI systems that confidently make up answers are a well-documented problem. Google is patenting a training method designed to teach models to…
Google Patents an AI That Catches When Ad Landing Pages Don't Match Your Search
You search for 'red running shoes size 10' and click an ad that drops you on a generic homepage for a shoe…
Google Patents a Method to Test Product Changes Without Exposing Individual User Data
Every time a tech company tests a new feature or ad, it collects real data about real people. Google is patenting a…
Google Files Patent to Create Detailed 3D Human Models From Photographs
Google is patenting a way to automatically extract fine physical details from images of real people and feed those details into a…
Waymo Patents a Camera That Floods the Dark with Invisible Light
Waymo has filed a patent for a compact camera module that uses near-infrared LEDs to illuminate a scene without any visible light,…
Waymo Patents Chip That Helps Self-Driving Cars See More Clearly at Distance
Waymo has filed a patent for a custom amplifier circuit that gives its lidar sensors more control over how faint and bright…
Google Patents an AI System That Builds New Ads From Your Existing Logos and Colors
Instead of asking advertisers to upload fresh creative for every new campaign, Google has patented a system that scans what you already…
Google Patent Targets Noise Reduction in Privacy Sandbox Ad Attribution Reporting
Google's Privacy Sandbox was built to track ad performance without exposing individual users, but it does so by deliberately adding random noise…
Google Patents a System That Combines Multiple Live Streams Into One Screen
Picture-in-picture, but for live video, and handled entirely by Google's servers before the stream even reaches your screen. That's the core idea…
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