Day: October 8, 2016

Apple Wins Appeal Reinstating $119.6 Million Samsung Verdict, showing insanity of patent law

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In this case, Apple claimed that Samsung infringed patents for the slide-to-unlock feature, autocorrect and a way to detect phone numbers so they can be tapped to make phone calls. The bulk of the award, $98.7 million, was for the detection patent that the earlier panel said wasn’t infringed. The February decision also said the Read more about Apple Wins Appeal Reinstating $119.6 Million Samsung Verdict, showing insanity of patent law[…]

US govt straight up accuses Russia of hacking DNC emails

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The Russian government “directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions,” the US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Friday, an accusation that gives formal recognition to a claim previously voiced through unnamed sources. In late July, The New York Times reported that Read more about US govt straight up accuses Russia of hacking DNC emails[…]

CIA Can Anticipate Social Unrest ‘Three to Five Days’ Out in Some Cases

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The agency, Hallman said, has significantly improved its “anticipatory intelligence,” using a mesh of sophisticated algorithms and analytics against complex systems to better predict the flow of everything from illicit cash to extremists around the globe. Deep learning and other forms of machine learning can help analysts understand how seemingly disparate data sets might be Read more about CIA Can Anticipate Social Unrest ‘Three to Five Days’ Out in Some Cases[…]

Transistor smashes industry ‘limit’, measures just 1nm

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The team, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, designed the minuscule transistor with a working one-nanometre gate – far surpassing any industry expectation for reducing transistor sizes. In the scientific study, MoS2 transistors with 1-nanometer gate lengths, published today in the journal Science, the researchers describe a prototype device which Read more about Transistor smashes industry ‘limit’, measures just 1nm[…]