On September 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Arendi S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics Inc., authored by Circuit Judge Sharon Prost, affirming the District of Delaware’s dismissal of a patent infringement complaint filed by Arendi under the duplicative-litigation doctrine. The ruling highlights the importance of adhering to…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Network hardware-maker QNAP is urging customers to update their network-attached storage devices immediately to protect them from a new wave of ongoing ransomware attacks that can destroy terabytes of data in a single stroke. Singapore-based QNAP said recently that it has identified a new campaign from a ransomware group known as…
Enlarge / AMD’s new naming scheme for Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs, broken down. (credit: AMD) Even for someone who pays a lot of attention to them, processor model numbers can be hard to parse. Ideally, each model number would communicate information about the chip’s underlying technology and capabilities, making it easy to quickly tell the…
When institutions rely on aggregated data to develop practices and policies for all “underrepresented” or “disadvantaged” students, equity suffers, according to a new report from Every Learner Everywhere (ELE).Read More
Ring initially rolled out the feature to its premium devices last year. Ring Ring, the Amazon-owned purveyors of smart home surveillance systems, has taken a step to let customers make sure their videos are bit more secure. Earlier today, the home security purveyor continued its campaign to gain and satisfy consumers by announcing a new…
Photo by Philipp Katzenberger on Unsplash Just two days after a previous update, Google pushed an emergency Chrome update last Friday to deal with a zero-day vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. If you use Chrome, the update process is automatic; you just need to restart your browser when it asks for…
Whether you love it or hate it, you probably have a very strong feeling about the notch (or, that awkward little black cutout that sits at the top of your iPhone or MacBook). The notch is a necessary evil, since, well, your front-facing camera has to go somewhere! That awkward cutout is a still-awkward, pill-shaped…
It’s Apple event day, which means new hardware galore. New iPhones! New Apple Watches! New AirPods! Didn’t have time to tune in live? Don’t sweat it — we’ve summed up the most important parts for easy skimming. New iPhones Apple came out swingin’ with not one, not two, but four new iPhones: iPhone 14, iPhone…
As part of the Hardware team here at TechCrunch, I love me a good Apple event, and this one was, er, eventful. I’m an active human who loves Scuba diving, so the Apple Watch Ultra seems like an underwater match made in heaven. The new iPhone Pro’s cameras and the fact that Apple has been…
As we inch closer to a highly anticipated protocol development for Ethereum, some big institutional players may wonder what “the Merge” could mean for them. The system upgrade, set for September 15, plans to reduce the second-largest blockchain’s energy consumption by about 99% by moving away from proof-of-work, which relies on crypto miners using tons…