Apple's New Patent Wants to Take On Venmo With Group Payment Sharing
Apple is exploring ways to let multiple people coordinate and authorize financial transfers through shared user interfaces — a direct push into…
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Apple Patents the iPhone Screen That Guides You When No Signal Exists
No cell signal, no Wi-Fi — and your iPhone still needs to get help to you. Apple is filing patents around the…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Keeps a Foldable Phone Folding Smoothly
Apple's latest patent digs deep into the mechanical guts of a foldable device hinge — describing a multi-axis roller system with interlocking…
Nvidia Patents a GPU-Parallel System for Tracking Multiple Objects Across Video Frames
Keeping track of dozens of moving objects in a live video stream is one of the hardest problems in computer vision —…
Nvidia Patents an API That Kicks Off Matrix Math Before the Data Fully Arrives
Nvidia is patenting a way to let its processors start crunching matrix math before all the input data has even finished loading…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Bring AI Language Models to Underserved Languages
Most of the world's roughly 7,000 languages get almost nothing from AI language models — Nvidia's new patent describes a systematic way…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Spot 3D Objects Way Beyond Lidar's Reach
Lidar — the laser-based ranging tech that gives self-driving cars their 3D vision — has a hard distance limit. Nvidia thinks it…
Nvidia Patents a Streaming AI System That Transcribes and Reasons Over Live Audio in Real Time
Most AI voice systems wait until you stop talking before they start thinking. Nvidia's new patent describes a system that feeds live…
Amazon Patents a System That Makes Its AI Explain Its Own Decisions
Ever wonder why Alexa recommended something or gave you a specific answer — and wish it would just tell you? Amazon has…
Zoox Patents a Dual-Mode Path Planning System for Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars have to plan paths in two very different ways depending on what they're doing — and Zoox is patenting a…
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