Zoox Patents a Way for Its Self-Driving Cars to Ignore Unlikely Threats
Every car on the road is a potential threat to a self-driving vehicle, but most of them just don't matter. Zoox is…
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Apple Patent Refines the User Interface for Wireless Contactless Payments
Most contactless payments require you to hold your phone or watch within an inch or two of a terminal. Apple is patenting…
Meta Patents Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Sharper Headset Display Focus
Meta is patenting a way to physically move lenses inside a headset using a wire that changes shape when heated, no motors,…
Apple Patents a System That Changes Your Apps Based on Who's in the Room
Imagine your device noticing that your coworker just walked in and automatically switching an app into a shared work view, then reverting…
Smart Glasses Patent Switches Device to Audio-Only Mode When Display Is Suppressed
Meta is working on a way for smart glasses to automatically shut off their display and keep working through audio alone, then…
Qualcomm Patents AI That Helps Phones Stay Connected When Switching Between Towers
Every time your phone switches from one cell tower to another, there's a tiny window where things can go wrong. Qualcomm is…
Intel Patents a Chip Security System That Quarantines Suspicious Messages Mid-Transfer
When a secure message between two chips just... never arrives, is that a glitch or an attack? Intel's new patent describes a…
Amazon Patent Teaches Self-Driving Cars to Weigh Risk Before Every Move
When a pedestrian might step into the road, how much should a self-driving car slow down? Zoox's latest patent proposes a mathematical…
IBM Patents a System That Stops Private Data From Exposing During Code Testing
Debugging software is supposed to expose everything under the hood, but that creates a real problem when the code is handling passwords,…
Patent Reveals Real-Time AR Overlay System for Camera Views
Point your phone's camera at something, and Google's system could immediately paste related content, ads, or information directly on top of that…
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