Apple Patents a Programmable Chip That Bakes CNN Layers Directly Into Hardware
Apple is exploring a chip design where each layer of a convolutional neural network gets its own dedicated slice of programmable hardware…
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Apple Patents Mid-Air Gesture Control for Wireless Speaker Playback
Apple is patenting a way to control nearby speakers — volume, track skipping, pause, play — using nothing but hand gestures in…
Apple Patents a Grouped UI for Tracking Paired Accessories in Find My
If you've ever opened Find My and struggled to tell your left AirPod from your right one, Apple's latest patent suggests a…
Apple Patents a System for Placing Remote Users in Shared 3D Environments
When some people are in the same room and others are joining remotely, where do you put the remote person's avatar in…
Apple Patents a Motion-Gated Heart Rate Sampling System for Wearables
Your Apple Watch sometimes takes heart rate readings at the worst possible moment — mid-stride, mid-pedal, maximum wrist bounce. This patent is…
Google Patents a Time-Multiplexed Display That Shifts Pixels to Boost Resolution
Google has patented a clever optical trick: instead of cramming more pixels onto a display panel, it rapidly tilts the angle of…
Waymo Patents a Lidar System That Sniffs Out Retroreflectors Before They Blind It
Reflective road signs and bike reflectors can overwhelm a self-driving car's lidar sensor, flooding it with so much light that nearby objects…
Google Patents an AI System That Reads Image Text and Decides What to Do With It
Point your camera at a sign, a menu, or a screenshot — Google's latest patent describes an AI that doesn't just read…
Google Patents an AI System That Auto-Optimizes Billions of Lines of Code
Google's internal codebase is famously one of the largest in the world. Now Google has patented a system that could send a…
Google Patents a System That Turns Ad Guidelines Into AI Training Data
Writing rules for what an AI is allowed to generate is one thing — turning those rules into usable training data is…
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