Microsoft Patents a System That Automatically Traces Cloud Failures to Their Source
When a massive cloud workflow breaks, finding the actual culprit buried inside hundreds of interdependent processes can take engineers hours or days.…
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Microsoft Patents a System That Reads Satellite Images to Identify Forests and Crops
Microsoft is patenting a way to automatically tell a forest from a cornfield using satellite data, then trigger the right land-management response…
Apple Patents Technology That Shrinks Files by Skipping Already-Known Data
Apple has filed a patent for a text compression system that works by predicting what the next piece of data will be…
Apple Patents a System That Compares Your Current Route to Your Past Trips in Real Time
Apple is working on a way for your phone to recognize that you're on a familiar route and instantly pull up how…
Google Patents a Screenshot Tool That Copies Text and Keeps Its Formatting
Copying text from a screenshot has always meant losing all the formatting. Google is patenting a way to fix that, pulling text…
Google Patent Reveals Scored Social Media Posts May Appear in Search Results
Google is exploring a system that would pull in posts from social platforms and rank them alongside regular web results. The twist…
Google Patent Targets Noise Reduction in Privacy Sandbox Ad Attribution Reporting
Google's Privacy Sandbox was built to track ad performance without exposing individual users, but it does so by deliberately adding random noise…
Google Patents a System That Combines Multiple Live Streams Into One Screen
Picture-in-picture, but for live video, and handled entirely by Google's servers before the stream even reaches your screen. That's the core idea…
Google Patents a System That Decides Which of Your Devices Should Answer You
Say "Hey Google" in a room full of smart speakers and every one of them tries to answer. Google is patenting a…
Google Patents a System That Sorts Content by Popularity Before Storing It
Google is filing patents on the unglamorous but expensive work of deciding which content gets premium server space and which gets shared…
Google Patents System That Serves Targeted Ads Without Storing Your Browsing History
Google is patenting an ad system where your personal browsing profile never leaves your device. Instead of shipping your data to Google's…
Google Patent Reveals App Features That Surface Automatically Based on Displayed Content
Most apps are full of features nobody uses because nobody knows they exist. Google is filing a patent for a system that…
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