The muddled state of patent eligibility law has direct and significant negative consequences for U.S. R&D investment, and for innovation in key fields of medical, economic, and strategic importance to the United States and its citizens. Uncertainty reduces R&D investment, as has been well-documented, and reliable patent protection mitigates uncertainty and generates increased R&D investment….
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Many users of Cadillac’s Super Cruise and Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist systems are overconfident in those systems’ abilities, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. IIHS surveyed owners of Super Cruise-equipped Cadillacs, Autopilot-enabled Teslas, and also owners of Infinitis or Nissans with ProPilot…
Amanda Reed We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. The leaves are getting redder, the air is getting crisper, and the days are getting shorter. That means it’s time to get hiking & camping before winter comes. And, thanks to Amazon’s Prime Early Access sale—Oct. 11…
Photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on October 8th shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft. The shape of that tail has changed over time. NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble At a celebratory news conference today, NASA announced that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test…
The air taxi relies on six tilting propellers and electric motors to fly. Joby Aviation For years, companies have been working on developing electric flying machines that are designed to make short hops that bring people or cargo from one spot to another. That vision is getting closer to taking off, as two companies, Joby…
Jesse Powell is stepping down from the CEO role at U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. Co-founded by Powell and Thanh Luu in 2011, Kraken is now the fourth-largest crypto exchange by volume, according to CoinMarketCap. It’s a critical inflection point for the company, which was valued at $10 billion…
Neobanks are wagers that modern, digitally native services can supplant the traditional banking landscape. Founders flocked to the idea, investors wrote myriad checks, and despite how far along we are in the neobanking boom, startups are still being formed today to attack the problem space. Lately, we’ve seen neobanks focused on targeted niches, often segmented…
NASA says its first mission to intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid succeeded in dramatically altering its path, proving the agency is capable of thwarting a potential hazardous space rock in the future, should one be on a collision course with Earth. The crash into the asteroid, Dimorphos, happened on Sept. 26, 2022, but…
Elon Musk clearly fashions himself a comedian of some sort. He’s likely the richest person in the world to suffer from the Poster’s Disease, where he simply cannot stop posting on social media. Cheesy memes, bad jokes, weird stuff, problematic posts, he does it all. So it’s no surprise that his apparent favorite comedian is…
At Meta Connect 2022, the company’s annual developer conference for virtual reality, the main event was all about the new Quest Pro VR headset. At the end of the keynote, however, Meta‘s research and development team did tease some far-future tech we last saw over a year ago. Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Reality Labs,…