If you don’t want to take apart your own Steam Deck, Valve’s new repair centers can do it for you. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge If something’s broken with your Steam Deck and you don’t want to try to fix it yourself, Valve now has a new option for you: you can…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has sent a third letter to Twitter attempting to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of the company. Musk’s legal team cited Twitter’s multimillion dollar severance payment to former security chief and whistleblower Peiter Zatko as a violation of the merger agreement and a reason to end…
This week in Other Barks & Bites: former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader urges inventors to pursue changes to flawed Federal Circuit case law; Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly Moore opines that the patent dispute between Apple and VirnetX may never end during oral arguments; Tesla seeks relief from Texas property taxes to build…
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal on September 7 granted sua sponte Director Review and affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision denying rehearing of the Board’s decision not to institute a request for inter partes review (IPR) by NXP USA, Inc. The ruling clarified that Sotera-type stipulations submitted after…
In early August, Senator Tillis (R-NC) proposed legislation called the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, (S. 4734). US Inventor wrote a response to this legislation showing how it will destroy already damaged patent protection for U.S. software inventors and startups. Included in this destruction will be some of the most important inventions to U.S….
Enlarge / A still from Runway’s “Text to Video” teaser promo suggesting image-generation capabilities. (credit: Runway) In a tweet posted this morning, artificial intelligence company Runway teased a new feature of its AI-powered web-based video editor that can edit video from written descriptions, often called “prompts.” A promotional video appears to show very early steps…
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) Nvidia announced yesterday that its upcoming H100 “Hopper” Tensor Core GPU set new performance records during its debut in the industry-standard MLPerf benchmarks, delivering results up to 4.5 times faster than the A100, which is currently Nvidia’s fastest production AI chip….
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection chain using polymorphic encoding. It also…
Enlarge / An Android Go phone, though it should be noted that YouTube Go is dead as of last month. (credit: Google) Android 13 has recently hit the streets, and with it, Google is raising the minimum requirements for Android phones. Google’s latest blog post announced that the minimum amount of RAM for Android Go,…
Enlarge / Corsair K100 Air. (credit: Corsair) There are people who prefer a more compact keyboard, be it for portability, a preferred aesthetic, or saving space. There are also those who prefer keyboards with as many keys as possible. We’re not just talking about full-size keyboards with numpads. We’re talking about the kind of extra…