During IPWatchdog’s Life Sciences Masters 2022 today, Retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Paul Michel said a lot could be fixed by the CAFC itself with respect to patent eligibility law if it would just go en banc more often. “By my recollection the Federal Circuit hasn’t…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Brandon Wade/Reuters Google’s ad revenue fell by nearly $2B compared to the previous quarter, proving a slowdown in the ad market The disappointing results are a “bad omen” for digital advertising companies at large, including Meta. The numbers follow Snap, which also reported that advertising partners are “decreasing budgets.” Alphabet’s quarterly…
Kanye West Evan Agostini/Invision/AP The RealReal said Tuesday that it would not be accepting new listings for Yeezy products on its site. There are still hundreds of listings under the ‘Yeezy’ tag on the site. Adidas announced earlier that it would be ending its production of all Yeezy products. Clothing resale marketplace The RealReal announced…
Mobile network EE has announced a partnership with Verisure that sees it enter the home security market. Available to EE customers only – for now – the first phase of the partnership sees the two organisations collaborate to offer a 24/7 monitored home alarm package under a service called “EE Smart Home Security, powered by…
EE has announced two partnerships that will see the mobile network expand into the home security and the cyber security sectors. The first of the two collaborations sees EE partner up with Verisure – owner of Arlo cameras – to offer a service called EE Home Security powered by Verisure. The service is aimed at…
Apple has detailed macOS Ventura‘s and iOS 16‘s new Continuity Camera feature in a recently published support document, offering details, instructions, and tips for the feature. Continuity Camera is a new feature in macOS Ventura that allows users to use an iPhone as a webcam on their Mac. Continuity Camera works wirelessly or wired in…
Close your eyes and, for a moment, imagine you know two languages. For any noun you can think of—object, feeling, place—two words exist where a monolingual brain comes up with only one. When speaking, reading, or writing, your brain must decide which of those words to use—an added task on top of the language processing…
When Baldwin Lee ’72 was five years old, his father told him he’d be going to MIT. The oldest male child in a Chinese immigrant family, he did as he was told, becoming valedictorian of Brooklyn Tech and enrolling at the Institute in 1968. The intense focus on science and technology felt suffocating, however, and…
Your MIT alumni benefits One of the most important MIT benefits alumni can access is the MITAA’s Infinite Connection (IC) web portal. With an IC account, you can search MIT’s online alumni directory and connect with alumni from your region, industry, course, living group, and more. You can also stay connected to other alumni by…
Tornadoes form in 10 seconds or less. So Howie Bluestein ’70, SM ’72, PhD ’76, a storm chaser for 40-plus years, is working with colleagues to build a new radar system that can scan nearly all of a storm’s volume in 15 seconds—and help forecasters quickly determine its potential to spawn life-threatening conditions. “This is…