This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit rules that Eagle Pharmaceutical’s ANDA defines a product that does not infringe upon Par Pharmaceutical’s patents covering Vasostrict; an inventor amicus brief in the OpenSky IPR asks USPTO Director Vidal to mandate sanctions for abuse of PTAB process; the Seventh Circuit affirms a default judgment…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop motherboard’s 3D-printed case design. Lenovo has a bone to pick with the circular power button design. (credit: Framework) If you bought the original Framework Laptop and wanted to upgrade its motherboard to the new version so you can benefit from the extra performance of a 12th-generation Core CPU, the company…
Enlarge / A splash image for Nuvia from the company’s blog. (credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm is apparently plotting a return to the server chip market. The company is overhauling its CPU offerings after acquiring the upstart chip design company Nuvia in 2021. Nuvia was founded by three high-ranking engineers from Apple’s chip division, with the original…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) One of the creators of the Botometer—a web tool Elon Musk used to estimate Twitter’s spam percentage for a court filing—has reportedly said that Musk’s calculation “doesn’t mean anything.” Kai-Cheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University, “questioned the methodology used by Mr Musk’s team and told…
Enlarge / The Lucid Air Sapphire has been designed to work around a racetrack. (credit: Lucid) On Friday at Monterey Car Week, the electric vehicle startup Lucid added a new variant to its portfolio: the Lucid Air Sapphire. It’s the first of a new sub-brand for Lucid, adding even more performance to cars that were…
Nielsen’s reports that streaming services inched by cable TV last month. Deposit Photos Streaming platforms finally passed a dramatic milestone last month… sort of. We think. Maybe. The major market analysis firm Nielsen reports that the combined viewership of services like Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and YouTube managed to surpass cable television’s total audiences last month—a…
Wayfair, the online home goods retailer, announced today it was laying off close to 900 employees as a way to reprioritize investment needs and meet the company’s current needs. This comes after the company announced a hiring freeze back in May. The layoffs represent close to 5% of the company’s global workforce and 10% of…
It has been a rough week for the metaverse, my friends. Meta launched their Horizon Worlds platform in Spain and France and reception was… frigid. That’s mostly thanks to the unimpressive graphics and awkward, lifeless avatars, all of which might be forgiveable if Meta had not spent a significant portion of a reported $10 billion…
Python developers are under attack once again, with attackers looking to steal Discord account details along with data stored in various browsers. Cybersecurity researchers from Snyk have recently spotted a dozen malicious packages, uploaded to PyPi, the biggest Python code repository out there, with more than 600,000 active users. The packages were uploaded almost a…
Natural gas flares are seen at an oil pump site outside of Williston, North Dakota. Thomson Reuters US natural gas prices could spike as much as 60% this winter, a Truist analyst said. Domestic inventories of liquefied natural gas are low and US production capacity is near 90%. The crunch is exacerbated by the fact…