New Apple Watch Patent Brings Elevation Views to Navigation
Apple is patenting a navigation interface that lets you flip between a flat, bird's-eye map and a view that also shows how…
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Apple Patents a Fix for Smart Home Systems That Think You've Moved
Your phone knows your home address, but what happens when it gets confused and decides you've moved? Apple's latest patent is a…
Apple Patents a Sticker Editor That Lets You Swap Visual Effects on the Fly
Apple is patenting a dedicated editing interface for stickers that makes swapping visual effects as simple as tapping through options, with each…
Apple Patents a Way to Pull Saved Web Content Directly Into Other Apps
You save something from a webpage and, without any copying or switching, it shows up inside a completely different app alongside related…
Google Patents a Three-Way Accuracy Check Before Serving You a Video Ad
Before an ad runs next to a video, Google wants to run that video through three separate tests to make sure the…
Google Patent Shows Street View Syncing Live With Draggable Map Controls
Google is patenting a way to keep a street-level view and an overhead map in perfect sync as you drag a marker…
Google Patents Ad Slots in Maps That Follow the Shape of the Map Itself
Google is exploring a way to sell ad space inside Maps that isn't a plain rectangle dropped on top of the map,…
Microsoft Patents OS Updates That Roll Back Only the Broken Parts
Every Windows user has lived through a bad update that bricks something. Microsoft is patenting a system that can undo just the…
New Microsoft Patent Predicts Your Next Move During Drag-and-Drop
The moment you pick up a file and start dragging it, Microsoft's new system wants to already know where you're headed. Instead…
Meta Patents a System That Spends More Computing Power on Ads for Active Users
Meta wants to stop wasting computing power ranking elaborate, targeted ads for users who barely open the app. A new patent describes…
Samsung Patents a System That Turns Web Page Content Into Auto-Generated Sound
What if opening a webpage could automatically trigger a sound experience built from what's on the page, without you pressing play on…
Samsung Patents a System That Measures Your Screen Before Fetching an AI Summary
Most AI-generated summaries dump a fixed block of text onto your screen, regardless of how much room you actually have. Samsung's new…
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