Engineer Devises "UFO Patents" For US Navy
Paul Ratner writes via Interesting Engineering: Theoretical inventions known as the "UFO patents" have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the American engineer Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, the patents were filed during his work for the U.S.....»»
Is Debating AI Sentience a Dangerous Distraction?
"A Google software engineer was suspended after going public with his claims of encountering 'sentient' artificial intelligence on the company's servers," writes Bloomberg, "spurring a debate about how and whether AI can achieve consciousness." "Res.....»»
Google Engineer Who Believes Its AI is Sentient Cites Religious Beliefs
Google engineer Blake Lemoine thinks Google's chatbot-building system LaMDA attained sentience. But Bloomberg shares this rebuttal from Google spokesperson Chris Pappas. "Hundreds of researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA and we are not.....»»
Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea
An anonymous reader shares a report: For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft's decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology. To commemorate.....»»
Layoffs are on the rise in the midst of crypto winter
Hao Jia was so convinced in the potential of cryptocurrencies that he passed up a job at a large tech firm, Oracle, to take another offer he received in early April to be a software engineer at one of the buzziest crypto startups, Coinbase......»»
Epistar files patent lawsuit against Amazon in US
Taiwan-based Epistar, a subsidiary of Ennostar, has filed a patent lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleging certain Amazon Fire TV models contain LED chips that infringe 12 Epistar patents......»»
New Samsung patents reveal stunning rollable phone designs
Rollable smartphones may be coming soon, and new Samsung patents offer an early glimpse at them......»»
Google places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is “sentient”
Blake Lemoine ignites social media debate over advances in artificial intelligence. Enlarge (credit: Yuchiro Chino | Getty Images) Google has ignited a social media firestorm on the nature of consciousness after placing an eng.....»»
Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings
One of the firm's software engineers believes chats with an AI system suggest it has feelings......»»
The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company"s AI Has Come to Life
Google engineer Blake Lemoine works for Google's Responsible AI organization. The Washington Post reports that last fall, as part of his job, he began talking to LaMDA, Google's chatbot-building system (which uses Google's most advanced large languag.....»»
US Anti-Hacking Law Tested in Trial Over 2019 Capitol One Data Breach
"Paige Thompson worked as a software engineer in Seattle and ran an online community for other programmers," remembers the New York Times. [Alternate URL here and here.] "In 2019, she downloaded personal information belonging to more than 100 milli.....»»
When Patents Attack 3D Printing: The HangPrinter Is In Peril
Today I saw some sad news. Apparently, a patent has been rewarded to someone in the U.S. for the HangPrinter, someone who is not Torbjorn Ludvigsen, the original creator who released the project as Open Source back in 2014. Yesterday, Torbjorn share.....»»
When Patents Attack 3DPrinting: The HangPrinter Is In Peril
Today I saw some sad news. Apparently, a patent has been rewarded to someone in the US for the Hangprinter, someone who is not Torjorn Ludvigsen, the original creator who released the project as Open Source back in 2014. Yesterday, Torbjorn shared o.....»»
When Patents Attack 3DPrinting: The HangPrinter Is In Perill
Today I saw some sad news. Apparently, a patent has been rewarded to someone in the US for the Hangprinter, someone who is not Torjorn Ludvigsen, the original creator who released the project as Open Source back in 2014. Yesterday, Torbjorn shared o.....»»
Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Tech in US Now Thrives in China
ASML has pressed IP theft allegations against two firms created by 'flagbearer' for China's semiconductor industry. From a report: Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML, a Dutch manufac.....»»
Engineer Sues Amazon For Not Covering Work-From-Home Internet, Electricity Bills
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amazon's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit, brought by one of its senior software engineers, asking it to reimburse workers for internet and electricity costs racked up while working from home in the.....»»
1.1 quintillion operations per second: US has world’s fastest supercomputer
With speed of 1.1 exaflop/s, DOE system at Oak Ridge lab leads Top 500 list. Enlarge / Systems engineer Matt Ezell, the system lead for the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.....»»
Plastic Recycling Doesn"t Work
Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator, the president of Beyond Plastics, and a visiting professor at Bennington College, and Jan Dell, a chemical engineer and the founder of the Last Beach Cleanup, write in a piece: Americans support recyc.....»»
RED Sues Nikon For Infringing On Its Video Compression Patents
RED filed a lawsuit yesterday suing (PDF) Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents. PetaPixel reports: The lawsuit was filed in a southern California federal court today and asserts that the Japanese camera manufacturer and its United St.....»»
Meta Copied VR Technology Key To Metaverse Gaming, Immersion Claims
Meta Platforms built its industry-leading virtual reality headset by infringing Immersion's patents, the smaller company alleged in a lawsuit. From a report: The Meta Quest 2, which dominates the market, infringes six patents covering haptic technolo.....»»
Developing wet circuits for biology research
You don't have to be an engineer to know that water and electronics don't mix. But if you want to use a sensing circuit to study small-scale features in a community of cells, the electronics must find a way to accommodate the cell's aqueous environme.....»»