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arcosapphire t1_j9qhovm wrote

Reply to comment by Funicularly in Apple reportedly made a big breakthrough on a secret non-invasive blood glucose monitor project that originally was part of a 'fake' startup by dakiki

And yet,

> There are over 5.22 billion smartphone users in the world, representing 66% of the global population.

My point remains that if making smartphones didn't break the economy, making an even less applicable device won't either.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I just don't think it's free money.

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autotldr t1_j9qgr85 wrote

Reply to Meta must pay $175M for patent-infringing livestreaming tech, judge says by OutlandishnessOk2452

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 82%. (I'm a bot)

> After a jury unanimously decided last September that Meta owed $175 million to walkie-talkie app-maker Voxer for patent infringement, Meta tried to avoid paying up by requesting a judge either reject the jury's verdict or give Meta a new trial.

> This week, a federal judge denied Meta's request, making it likely that Meta will have to pay all those running royalties for illegally copying Voxer's technology and using it to launch Facebook Live and Instagram Live.

> In his decision, US District Judge Lee Yeakel affirmed that substantial evidence supported the jury's verdict of patent infringement and sufficient evidence supported the damages that the jury awarded Voxer.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Voxer^#1 Meta^#2 patent^#3 Facebook^#4 jury^#5

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No_Woodpecker_7774 t1_j9qcheh wrote

Reply to Meta must pay $175M for patent-infringing livestreaming tech, judge says by OutlandishnessOk2452

Seems like the company ',Voxer,' patented a streaming technology that utilizes simultaneous broadcasting and data retention of video over multi-channel connection(s) to reduce disconnect and smooth playback. A couple years after facebook met with them and almost reached a deal.. they used the technological insights gained from meeting and protected patents to copycat the design. What company doesnt try to copycat the competiton? But they must have taken it a little too far..

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NZGumboot t1_j9q7l51 wrote

Reply to comment by HolyPommeDeTerre in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem

Basically what they do is create a huge number of entangled particles, separate each pair into locations A and B, then measure each the state of all of the particles at both locations (this breaks the entanglement, but that's okay.)

The measurements at A and B appear perfectly random according to all the tests of randomness that we have. But when you bring the measurements from A and B together, you find that they are correlated -- each pair might be e.g. in the same state, or the opposite state, depending on how the entanglement was created. A and B can be arbitrarily far apart.

You might think, well that's easy to explain, when you created the entanglement it set the state of each at that point. But no, you can prove that isn't the case, and that it must be the case that the entangled particles both have an indefinite state until they're measured, and the measurement of one affects the state of the other across any distance. (The proof is called Bell's inequality, see this video for more: https://youtu.be/ZuvK-od647c)

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