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Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves physical compromises that limit it
A new space imaging startup called EarthNow aims to provide not just pictures of the planet on demand, but real-time video anywhere a client desires. Its ambition is matched only by its pedigree: Bill
Taking another step toward shedding its reputation as the tech industry's most notorious patent troll, Intellectual Ventures is launching the first company from its incubator. The company's ISF Incuba
Just because we live in an age of many sensors doesn't mean we always have the right one for the job. One in particular we've been lacking is a radar system that can detect obstacles and aircraft hund
This morning, intelligent thermostat company Nest struck a patent licensing deal with notorious patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures. There are a variety of reasons for the deal but the primary purpos
Nathan Myhrvold, erstwhile Microsoft CTO and now patent powerbroker extraordinare, has hit the news this weekend, but it's not for his latest licensing deal with a <a href="http://www.intellectualven
Never troll a troll, say men and women much wiser than moi.
To them, I say no, in this case it's perfectly fine to <a href="http://www.trollthetroll.com/">troll the troll</a>.
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Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go.
<strong>Patents.</strong>
This week on <a href="http://pressheretv.com/?p=1840">NBC's Press:Here</a> we talked about this to
Back in early April, Kent Walker, Google's Senior Vice President & General Counsel, wrote a post on the Google blog titled "<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/patents-and-innovation.
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/intellectual-ventures">Intellectual Ventures</a> is (again) <a href="http://news.priorsmart.com/intellectual-ventures-v-hynix-semiconductor-l4cv/">suing</a>
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You can always count on Hunch founder Chris Dixon for interesting Tweets. He just sent out this <a href="ht
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Patent litigation is getting so bad that a new startup, <a href="http://www.rpxcorp.com/index.html">RPX Corp.</a> (aka, Ra
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/head-neurons-graphic-patents.png" alt="" title="head-neurons-graphic-patents" />Don't blame Nathan Myhrvold for taking advantage of the cult