Monthly Archives: November 2022

Turning tofu waste into natural gas is helping to clean rivers in Indonesia

The runoff from tofu factories pollutes rivers and kills fish. Over the last 40 years, Indonesia has built almost 50,000 biogas plants to convert tofu wastewater.  We visited Sumedang to see how communities are producing cooking fuel from the waste of this popular food. The wastewater from tofu production makes rivers smelly and kills fish….

Google paid millions to radio hosts to endorse the Pixel 4 — even though they hadn’t used it

Google shared scripts for the hosts to read. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google and iHeartMedia are settling with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and seven state attorneys general for allegedly paying radio hosts to read endorsements of the Pixel 4 when the hosts hadn’t actually used the phone. Google allegedly…

CAFC Says Burden of Reexamination Following Denied IPR Does Not Warrant Mandamus Relief

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) last week denied a petition requesting mandamus relief to vacate the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) grant of a request for ex parte reexamination of Sound View Innovations’ U.S. Patent No. 6,708,213 by DISH Network LLC. The ‘213 patent covers a “Method for Streaming…