Monthly Archives: September 2022

Turtle Beach’s cloud-first controller is wired for your Xbox, wireless for your phone and PC

Turtle Beach includes a mobile phone clip with the Recon Cloud controller and claims its battery lasts up to 30 hours on Bluetooth. | Image: Turtle Beach Turtle Beach has a new Xbox controller coming out next month, and it’s adding wireless functionality — though not in the way you might expect. The Recon Cloud…

CAFC Affirms District Court Analysis of Standard for Granting Patent Term Adjustment

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday issued a precedential decision affirming a Virginia district court’s grant of summary judgment for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with respect to SawStop Holding LLC’s challenge of the denial of patent term adjustment (PTA) for two of its patents. The CAFC…

FCC has approved $6 billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink

Enlarge Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state governments. Today, the FCC announced $791.6 million for six broadband providers, covering network expansions to over 350,000 homes and businesses in 19 states. The ISPs will receive the money over 10 years. “This round of…

Apple updates its AppleCare+ support service to offer unlimited repairs

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Apple will no longer limit how frequently AppleCare+ owners can pay Apple for supported product repairs. As spotted by MacRumors yesterday, the company updated the AppleCare+ subscription support service to offer “unlimited” repairs across its current product line. That’s much more flexible than the two repairs per year previously offered, as per the Wayback Machine. According…

Juul settles massive nationwide probe into youth vaping for $438.5M

Enlarge / A young man wears a shirt that reads DITCHJUUL while James Monsees, co-founder and chief product officer at JUUL Labs Inc., testifies before the House Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee, which is examining JUUL’s role in the youth nicotine epidemic, on July 25, 2019, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Mark Wilson) Disgraced…

Why are hard drive companies investing in DNA data storage?

Enlarge (credit: Adrienne Bresnahan) The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term, archival storage. That’s largely because it’s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format we’re unlikely to forget how to read. While there has been some interesting progress, efforts have…