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Eighteen months ago, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Alice v. CLS Bank that limited the kinds of software and business methods that can be patented. Few suspected this ruling would have such a profound impact not only on patent enforcement but on American innovation itself. For what Alice did was make the highest-value new innovations in technology and service models that are increasingly d
Last month, the venerable Economist newspaper published an editorial decrying the state of the patent system. They rightly condemned the “parasitic ecology of trolls” that has bruised the patent system in recent years. But then the Economist went much further, claiming that while “today’s patent regime operates in the name of progress, instead it sets innovation back.” This is hardly surprising fo
Correction: It has not been confirmed, as originally written, that a console was found as a result of specific Belgian terror raids. Minister Jambon was speaking about tactics he knows ISIS to be using generally. Following Friday night's terrorist attacks in Paris which killed at least 127 people and left more than 300 injured, authorities are discovering just how the massacre was planned. And it
Now 59, he has spent many years holed up in his studio in the Berkeley hills, working on this new design. Currently, most electronic musicians use a keyboard, which offers only the most basic ways to shape the sound and uses a protocol called MIDI, which allows producers to record the notes they play into a computer to produce whole compositions. Some musicians, like the EDM wunderkind Skrillex, d
Although news coverage around them is mostly focused on use in military operations, drones can be used across multiple industries. Using diverse payloads, ranging from GoPro cameras to professional cameras, drones can be used to perform a variety of tasks, ranging from reconnaissance missions in the military to, possibly, delivering pizza. According to a study by the Association for Unmanned Vehic
In a bill passed earlier today, the Government of New Zealand announced that software in the country will no longer be patentable. New Zealand's largest IT representative body, the Institute of IT Professionals, expressed relief and said the decision removed a major barrier to software-led innovation. The policy was passed in a Supplementary Order Paper, which sets out proposed amendments to the e
The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun. On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance demanding that he take down the online blueprints for the 3D-printable "Liberator" handgun that his group released Monday, along with nine other 3D-printable firearms components hosted on
Much of the reporting about Google’s driverless car has mistakenly focused on its science-fiction feel. While the car is certainly cool—just watch the video below about a 95%-blind man running errands—the gee-whiz focus suggests that it is just a high-tech dalliance by a couple of brash young multibillionaires, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In fact, the driverless car has broad impli
In a workshop Friday at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York, a German hacker and security consultant who goes by the name "Ray" demonstrated a looming problem for handcuff makers hoping to restrict the distribution of the keys that open their cuffs: With plastic copies he cheaply produced with a laser-cutter and a 3D printer, he was able to open handcuffs built by the German firm Bo
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy? Tim O'Reilly: No. And so what? Let's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell
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