Patent: A Controlled System Decides Which Ads Reach Your Screen
Google is patenting a system that decides which ad lands on your screen through a chain of isolated processing steps, each one…
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Qualcomm Patents a Two-Step Biometric Lock That Checks You're Alive First
Before your fingerprint or face even counts as a login, Qualcomm's new patent wants your phone to confirm it's dealing with a…
IBM Patents a System That Catches Cloned License Plates Using Location Data
If two cars are caught on camera with the same license plate 500 miles apart within an hour, one of them is…
IBM Patents a System for Confirming the Code Running a Chip's Security Features
When a server runs an encryption operation, how does it know the chip doing the work hasn't been updated with buggy or…
IBM Patents a Way to Stop Encrypting the Same Data Twice in Cloud Storage
When your data travels between servers in a cloud storage system, it often gets encrypted twice, once for safety and once more…
IBM Patents a Tool That Spots File-Encrypting Attacks by Sorting Data Into Groups First
Most ransomware detectors scan every storage volume the same way, whether it holds billing records or raw video files. IBM's new patent…
IBM Patents a Network Threat Detector That Watches How Far Your Data Travels
When something goes wrong on a corporate network, data packets often start taking weird detours. IBM's new patent wants to catch those…
New Patent Keeps Your Account ID Hidden From Apps
Every time an app asks Google who you are, your real account identity gets passed around. Google's new patent describes a system…
Google Patents Technology to Detect Fake Faces by Measuring How Cameras See Depth
Holding a printed photo in front of a phone's face-unlock camera is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Google's latest…
Google Patents a Cloud System That Keeps Private Data Locked Inside a Sealed Processing Chamber
Google is patenting a cloud architecture where your most sensitive data — health records, financial transactions, whatever — gets processed inside a…
Microsoft Patents Laser Sign-In That Locks Out Anyone Not Standing Directly Opposite
What if two devices could only talk securely when they were literally pointing at each other? That's the core idea behind this…
Samsung Patents Technology to Teach Security Systems to Spot Fake Fingerprints and Face Scans
Teaching an AI to spot a fake fingerprint or face scan is tricky when you don't have enough real fakes to practice…
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