Google Patents a System That Edits Each Part of Your Photo Separately — Automatically
Your phone's camera already does a lot of invisible processing — but Google is patenting a system that goes further, splitting your…
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Microsoft Patents a System That Rewrites Your AI Prompt When You Flag a Bad Answer
When an AI gives you a wrong or useless answer, most systems just shrug and wait for you to rephrase manually. Microsoft's…
Meta Patents a System That Scans Real Clothes Into Virtual Avatars
Meta has filed a patent for a pipeline that takes a 3D scan of a person wearing real clothes and reverse-engineers the…
Microsoft Patents a Built-In Windows Toggle for AI Data Collection Control
Microsoft is patenting a system-level privacy toggle baked directly into Windows that lets you see — and stop — AI data collection…
Apple Patents a Chip Lid That Corrals Liquid Metal Thermal Paste
Liquid metal is one of the best materials for pulling heat off a chip — but it has a habit of wandering.…
Google Patents On-Device AI That Strips Personal Data Before Cloud Upload
Google is patenting a system where your device — not Google's servers — is responsible for scrubbing your personal information out of…
Microsoft Patents an AI Security Agent That Investigates Cyber Threats on Its Own
Microsoft has patented a security agent that doesn't wait for a human analyst to decide what to investigate next — it asks…
Amazon Patents an LLM-Powered System That Reads Emails to Catch Cyberattacks
Amazon is patenting a security system that doesn't just look at network logs — it reads emails and conversation transcripts to figure…
Microsoft Patents a System That Blocks Dangerous Cloud Config Changes Before They Ship
Every major cloud breach has a root cause, and a surprising number of them start with a misconfigured deployment — a firewall…
Apple Patents a Laser Sensor That Knows When Your Headset Slips
Apple wants your headset to know the moment it starts sliding down your nose — using the same laser-speckle physics that makes…
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