The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday afternoon announced that USPTO Director Kathi Vidal will be accepting amicus briefs in the Director Review of both OpenSky Industries, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01064 and Patent Quality Assurance, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01229, both of which have been the subject of scrutiny by members…
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(credit: Aurich Lawson) It’s been quite a while since we last put together a desktop PC-building guide, partly because trying to fight your way through bots and scalpers to pay twice the retail price for a graphics card was a miserable experience that we wouldn’t want to inflict on anyone. But even as 2022 has…
Enlarge / SpaceX’s Ship 24 rolls to the launch site in South Texas this week. (credit: SpaceX) Welcome to Edition 5.02 of the Rocket Report! Just as a heads up, I would like to note that it is now more than just theoretical that SpaceX’s Starship and NASA’s Space Launch System rocket could make their orbital…
The idea for my middle grade debut emerged from a lesson in my own fourth grade class. My teacher, whom I’ll call Ms. K, had a large collection of New Yorker magazine covers that she handed out as inspiration for creative writing assignments. Each cover was its own work of art—illustrated and free of text—and…
OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu in October 2020. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Dante Lauretta didn’t expect the surface of the asteroid to be, as he puts it, “fluffy.” As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface materials, mission principal investigator Lauretta and his team knew the process would leave…
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You have approximately thiiiiiiiiiis much space. Clay Banks / Unsplash Every time my neighbors walked by the cacophony of clatter and power tools spilling from my garage, they peered in with curious expressions. You could almost hear the refrain from the old Tom Waits song muttering in their heads: “What’s he building in there?” After…
Coalition, a San Francisco-based startup that combines cyber insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools, is preparing to expand outside of the U.S. for the first time following a mega $250 million Series F investment that takes its valuation to $5 billion. The investment, backed by Allianz X, Valor Equity Partners and Kinetic Partners, comes less than…
One of the stunning facts that’s emerged over the last few years – especially as VCs and startups have turned their attention towards the climate crisis – is that our cities produce an enormous amount of CO2: in fact, buildings are responsible for around 40% of global CO2 emissions. But of course, the problem is…
While Twitter is in the midst of being bought by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it’s been spotted testing two features as of late – one where you can listen to podcasts within its app on iOS and Android, and another where you can ‘cotweet’ with another user to post a tweet. Yet as the company…