@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-07-08 17:31:38
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-07-08 17:31:38
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-02 01:01:45
A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/u
@servelan@newsie.social2026-07-08 18:47:46
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-13 05:32:12
How Merck uses patents to help maintain Keytruda's exorbitant price - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/cancer-calculus/keytruda-evergreening-patents-merck/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-28 05:25:50
Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $500M for using Optis' wireless patents (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d6a0103a-7fca-4e66-b92f-45f6ff3de059
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net2026-04-17 04:50:59
stupid question:
What is the actual obstacle to being able to run Linux on a cellphone (i.e., and be able to use it as a cellphone)?
Is there some crucial interop spec that's being kept proprietary/secret?
Or is it there some particular software component that's encumbered by patents and so there can't be a free version of it?
Some weird licensing structure that the operating companies have been able to enforce (and the EU hasn't gotten around to say…