Google cleared of infringement in Oracle lawsuit over Java
A jury in San Francisco on Thursday cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android. The jury of eight women and two men took three days of deliberation to reach its verdict. Oracle was seeking up to $9 billion in damages, making it a huge victory for Google and its legal team. "Your work is done," Judge William Alsup told the jury after the verdict was read. [ Also on CIO.com: The 13 developer skills you need to master now ] Orac..>> view originalACLU wants a piece of the Microsoft v. US data gag order lawsuit
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today asked a federal judge to let it join Microsoft in suing the U.S. government over authorities' use of gag orders that prevent the technology firm from telling customers their data has been demanded, court filings showed."A basic promise of our Constitution is that the government must notify you at some point when it searches or seizes your private information," said Alex Abdo, an ACLU senior staff attorney, in a statement Thursday. "The governm..>> view originalMars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400000 years ago
Mars is emerging from an ice age, according to a new study. Studying the Martian climate and how it changes over time can help scientists better plan future missions to Mars and even understand climate change here on Earth, the study authors say. Models had already predicted that Mars underwent several rounds of ice ages in the past, but little physical measurements ever confirmed those predictions. Today’s study, published in the journal Science, is the first to map the ice deposits on the nor..>> view originalFacebook and Microsoft Are Laying a Giant Cable Across the Atlantic
Getty Images Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive cable across the middle of the Atlantic. Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this giant underwater cable will stretch from Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, shuttling digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean. Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16 million times the bandwidth of your home Internet connection—it will allow the two tech titans to more efficiently move enormous amounts of information between the many comput..>> view originalForcePhone adds pressure sensitivity to any phone using ultrasonics
Force touch may be a feature exclusive to the latest iPhones, but something like it is now possible on pretty much any phone out there, thanks to research from engineers at the University of Michigan. It works not by polling sensors in the touchscreen, but through ultrasound. The phone’s speaker emits a sound covering the 18-24 kHz range, well outside what a human can hear — but the device’s microphone can detect it just fine. When the user presses on the screen or squeezes the phone’s body, t..>> view originalQualcomm Leads Industry in IoT Patents
Qualcomm is the most prolific company when it comes to IoT inventions, holding a record number of patents for the Internet of Things, according to a report from LexInnova via Business Insider. The telecommunications giant holds 724 patents related to the Internet of Things, including 157 that have been marked as high-value. These high-value patents are ones which are likely to be involved in litigation, defined as such because devices which aren’t considered to be useful are less likely to be co..>> view originalCan Google Fix Android's Biggest Problem?
Google is pissed—or at least that’s what it sounds like when you read Bloomberg’s look into the company’s relationship with smartphone manufacturers. According to the report, Google is aggressively addressing Android’s biggest problem: fragmentation, or the fact that few of Android’s 1.4 billion users are using the latest version of the operating system. While Apple’s iOS enjoys healthy adoption rates whenever a new update for the software rolls out, it takes manufacturers a very long time to ..>> view originalSchrödinger's cat is alive and dead in 2 places at once
Through new experiments involving the famous Schrödinger cat state paradox, researchers have shown that a "quantum cat" can be both alive and dead, and in two places at once. The results, which involve inducing a large number of photons to have matching states (or to become entangled), show the ability to manipulate complex quantum states, with applications for computation and long-distance communication. They also represent perhaps the first time scientists have been able to achieve such quantu..>> view original
Friday, May 27, 2016
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