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Monthly Archives: September 2022
The gamesmanship that plays out on both sides of the “v” was on the examination table during “Gaming the Patent Litigation System: Value, Venue, Verdicts & Villains,” one of the panels taking place on the first day of IPWatchdog LIVE 2022. Though the panel included lawyers primarily representing either patent owners or district court defendants…
Enlarge / BotW, meet TotK. The next game in the Legend of Zelda series is called Tears of the Kingdom and will hit the Switch on May 12, 2023, Nintendo announced today during a livestreamed Nintendo Direct presentation. It has been over three years since Nintendo first announced the follow-up to Breath of the Wild and over…
Enlarge (credit: d3sign via Getty Images) We all know a “COVID virgin,” or “Novid,” someone who has defied all logic in dodging the coronavirus. But beyond judicious caution, sheer luck, or a lack of friends, could the secret to these people’s immunity be found nestled in their genes? And could it hold the key to…
Dogs reportedly trained with aversive tools were more “pessimistic” than dogs that were not. moshehar / Pixabay This article was originally featured on Undark. Three years ago, Valli Fraser-Celin adopted a blonde husky mix puppy, whom she named Husk. Fraser-Celin soon started looking for ways to curb Husk’s “totally wild” behavior, she said, like stealing…
A clever sulfur-crested cockatoo. Barbara Klump/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior If Alfred Hitchcock were making horror movies today, he might want to consider a re-make of his 1963 film “The Birds,” set in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Sulfur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita), an intelligent bird native to Australia are still in a continuing years…
Despite well-known volatility in the crypto market, crypto startups building infrastructure to support the industry’s long-term growth have seemed to fare better than their peers. This is especially true for data, a universally necessary input for web3 companies, with crypto data firms like Messari reportedly fundraising amid a down market. Goldsky, a data infrastructure company…
As institutions continue to dip their toes into the world of digital assets, KKR & Co. is the latest to enter the space by tokenizing a part of one of its private equity funds — a step that may provide institutional private market strategies to more individual investors. “We’re big believers in blockchain technology and…
Maven, co-founded by Udemy’s Gagan Biyani and AltMBA’s Wes Kao, began in 2020 with a startup idea that perfectly combined two booming sectors: the creator economy and edtech. The startup sold cohort-based classes, led by creators and influencers, to students. The small-group classes were created by instructors and powered by classmates, a bet on the…
HBO and its streaming service HBO Max cleaned up at last night’s Emmy awards, pulling in a dozen wins in the Primetime Emmys, compared with its next nearest rival, Netflix, which had just 3. Overall, Netflix also fell behind in terms of the total number of awards it won, including the recently-aired Creative Arts Emmys,…