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This two-part article explains the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) practices with respect to powers of attorney. The pattern of neglect of administrative law identified here with regard to powers of attorney alone imposes a $30 to $40 million per year excess burden on the public. For the USPTO’s rules as whole, the…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We are surrounded by a world of motion and I would like to get off of it Continue reading… Read More
This April, Black Coffee, the famed South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo, made history at the Grammys. With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a…
Getting calendars to match up can be tricky no matter the medium. Sarah Elizabeth / Unsplash Trying to figure out how to sync your Google and Apple calendars used to be an excruciating process. You’d have to make your iCloud calendar public, grab its URL, paste it into Google’s app, change “webcal” to “http,” and…
Over the past 18 months, Inflection Points has been working in stealth mode to build out a crypto-focused employment and corporate training business and just secured $12.6 million in funding. The firm was founded by Colton Sakamoto and long-time crypto entrepreneur and investor Anthony Pompliano in an effort to help connect crypto companies looking for…
DeltaStream, which is developing a streaming database platform geared toward enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in a seed round led by New Enterprise Associates. The funding will be put toward product development, CEO Hojjat Jafarpour told TechCrunch in an email interview, as well as hiring five new employees by the end…
Still suffering with Demogorgon-themed nightmares after the latest Stranger Things outing? Well we may have just the antidote. On Tuesday, the official Stranger Things Twitter account tweeted a behind-the-scenes clip of the Demogorgon fight scene that takes place in the Russian prison in Season 4. As you can probably guess, it wasn’t quite as unnerving…
Sites that created Wordle archives have been pressured by the New York Times to shut down. That means there’s no longer any way to access the full archive, but we’ve provided a list of the past 15 Wordle answers for you to see what’s been used, and plan your strategy going forward. The free daily…
In the second season of The Mindy Project, a lovelorn Dr. Mindy Lahiri (or Mindy Kaling as we know her) once made a strong case for “heartache days”: a phrase she coined but a concept that has the potential to be universal. After breaking up with her fiancé in Season 2, priest-turned-DJ Casey Peerson (Anders…