Qualcomm Patents Technology That Lets Multiple Tasks Share a Memory Unit's Built-In Processing Power
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a system that lets one physical memory-processing unit pretend to be several independent ones, so different…
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IBM Patents an AI That Checks Its Own Confidence Before Answering Without a Full Team
Most AI systems fail silently when part of their infrastructure goes offline. IBM's new patent describes a way for an AI to…
Google Patents a Way to Search Documents by Reading Only the Parts That Matter
Search engines today often have to process every word in every candidate document before deciding which one answers your question. Google's new…
Google Files Patent for a Lower-Cost Way to Run Quantum Chemistry Simulations
Quantum computers promise to simulate molecules in ways ordinary computers never could, but the error costs are steep. Google's new patent describes…
OpenAI Patents AI Hardware That Skips Calculations It Knows Will Be Zero
A huge fraction of the math inside an AI chip is pointless: multiply anything by zero and you already know the answer.…
Meta Patents a System That Unlocks All Your Devices When You Log Into One
Meta is working on a way to let one login cascade across all your gadgets at once, so your phone, glasses, watch,…
Samsung Patents a Thin VR Headset Optic That Sharpens Focus as Your Eye Moves
One of the most persistent complaints about VR headsets is that everything looks crisp at exactly one distance and blurry everywhere else.…
IBM Patents a Memory-Saving Compression System for AI Text Generation
Every word an AI language model generates costs memory, and that cost compounds fast. IBM's new patent targets the biggest memory hog…
Apple Patents Controls for Sharing and Dimming Content in 3D Spaces
Apple is working on ways to let people share what they're looking at inside a three-dimensional environment, while also giving the device…
Google Patents a Way to Read Body Gestures Using Both Cameras and Wearables
Google is working on a system that combines what a camera sees with what your smartwatch feels to figure out exactly what…
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