Google Patents a Lock Screen That Lets Guests Control Your Smart Home Without a Password
Google is working on a way to let anyone in your house — without a PIN or fingerprint — control your smart…
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X Development's New Patent Builds an AI That Checks Its Own Work and Explains How
X Development — Alphabet's moonshot lab — has filed a patent for an AI platform that doesn't just generate predictions, it also…
Google's New Patent Lets AI Decide Which Screen in the Room Should Answer You
Point your phone's camera at a TV or laptop, tap a button, and Google's proposed AI agent figures out which device in…
Google Patents an AI Building Block That Fades Instead of Snapping
Every neural network needs activation functions to decide which signals get passed forward — and the most popular one, ReLU, has a…
Google Patents an AI That Learns to Draw Your Specific Subject, Not Just Any One
Most AI image generators can draw 'a dog' — but they can't draw *your* dog. Google's patent describes a training method that…
Waymo Patents a Heated Sensor Window That Fights Fog and Frost Two Ways
Rain, fog, and frost are kryptonite for self-driving car sensors. Waymo's latest patent describes a heated sensor window that uses two completely…
Google Patents an AI That Fills In the Washed-Out Parts of Your Photos
Blown-out skies and washed-out faces have been a stubborn problem in phone photography for years. Google is now filing a patent that…
Google's New Patent Fixes the Dark-Face Problem in Backlit Photos
Your phone's camera picks one exposure for an entire scene — which is why your friend's face goes dark when there's a…
Waymo Patents a Self-Driving Car That Notices When Its Own Sensors Are Off
What if your self-driving car could notice its own sensors were off — and fix them — just by comparing what it…
Google Patents an AI That Reads Your Question Before Deciding Which Part of the Video to Search
Instead of feeding your entire video into one AI model and hoping for the best, Google's new patent describes a smarter dispatch…
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