Google Patents a System for Counting User Trends Without Seeing Individual Data
Google wants to answer questions like 'how many users spent more than $50?' without ever actually looking at what any single user…
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Waymo Patents a Rotating Device That Checks Whether Its Night-Vision Lights Shine Evenly
Before a self-driving car can see in the dark, someone has to make sure its infrared lights are shining evenly in every…
Waymo Patents a Way for Remote Operators to Inch Robotaxis Past Blocked Views
When a self-driving car can't see around a corner, it doesn't have to just sit there anymore. Waymo's newest patent describes a…
Google Patents a System for Keeping 3D and 2D App Screens in Sync
Imagine rotating a 3D widget in your AR headset while a colleague sees the same change reflected on their laptop screen. That's…
Google Patents an AI That Learns Which Ad Keywords Actually Work
Google is training an AI to study which ad keywords historically win, strip them out of a dataset, and then teach the…
Google Patents a System That Decides Which of Your Devices Should Answer You
Say "Hey Google" in a room full of smart speakers and every one of them tries to answer. Google is patenting a…
Google Patent Reveals Plans to Turn Human Skin Into a Wearable Touchscreen
Google is working on glasses that turn your hand or arm into a touchscreen, projecting app controls directly onto your body when…
Google Patent Reveals AI Assistant That Remembers Users Over Time
Google is patenting a way for its AI assistant to remember things you've told it before and weave that context back into…
Google Patents a Method to Prevent Speech AI From Retaining Private Training Data
When Google trains its speech recognition AI on real recordings, the model might memorize fragments of people's voices without anyone intending it…
Google Patents a Way to Link Digital Content to Printed Images via Camera
Point your phone's camera at something, and Google's system could decide which digital information to float on top of it, based not…
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