Google Patents a Smarter Way to Keep Database Indexes in Sync at Scale
When a giant database splits its data across thousands of servers, keeping the indexes — the 'table of contents' that makes lookups…
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Google Patents Its Wide & Deep AI Architecture Nearly a Decade After Publishing It
Google published its Wide & Deep learning architecture in a 2016 research paper — and is now, apparently, patenting it. That gap…
Apple Patents a Hybrid Magnetic Voice Coil to Squeeze Better Sound from Tiny Speakers
Apple is rethinking one of the oldest parts of speaker design — the voice coil — by weaving magnetic wire into it…
Nvidia Patents a Compiler That Auto-Partitions Code Into GPU Warps
Writing GPU code that actually runs efficiently requires hand-tuning how work is divided across hardware thread groups called warps — a notoriously…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Scores the Strength of Your Professional Relationships
Not all LinkedIn connections are equal — some are close colleagues, others are people you met once at a conference. Microsoft is…
Nvidia Patents a Self-Correcting Training Loop for Self-Driving AI
Teaching a self-driving car to recover from a mistake is hard — but generating millions of those recovery moments synthetically, on demand,…
Microsoft Patents a 2D Parallel Method for Cheaper Transformer Self-Attention
Training large language models on very long documents is expensive — partly because the math that lets tokens 'attend' to each other…
Microsoft Patents a Weight-Rotating Trick to Keep GPUs Busy During AI Training
Training large AI models on very long sequences of text is brutally expensive — partly because GPUs end up waiting around with…
Apple Patents Chips That Reroute Around Their Own Broken Test Circuits
Apple is patenting a way for chips to detect when part of their own built-in test wiring is broken — and automatically…
Microsoft Patents Seasonal-Aware Cloud Usage Anomaly Detection System
Most cloud anomaly detectors treat a Black Friday traffic spike the same as a suspicious breach. Microsoft's new patent tries to fix…
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