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Google wins appeal of $20 mln US patent verdict

Search Engine Giant, Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, successfully persuaded an appeals court in the United States on Tuesday to invalidate three anti-malware copyrights that were at the center of a Texas court’s twenty million-dollar infringing acts decision against the firm.

Alfonso Cioffi & Allen Rozman’s copyrights, according to the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit, were found to be inapplicable because they covered ideas that were not covered by a prior version of the claim.

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Google welcomed the choice, according to spokesman José Castada. An inquiry for comment was not immediately answered by the inventors’ attorneys.

In 2013, Cioffi along with the daughters of the late Rozman filed a lawsuit against Google in the Federal court in East Texas, claiming that Chrome’s malware protection features violated their patents for a system that stops malware from gaining access to sensitive information on a computer.

A jury found that Google violated the patents in 2017 and granted the complainants a total of 20 million USD in addition to continuing payments, which according to the plaintiff’s representative at that point in time were anticipated to reach approximately seven million dollars yearly for the following nine years.

However, the Federal Circuit declared all of the patents invalid on Tuesday. The three-judge bench reached a unanimous conclusion that the three claims had been reissued from a previous anti-malware claim and that federal law needed the newly issued patents to encompass the same idea as the first.

The new patents described web browser-specific technology that was absent from the original patent, according to the appeals court.

Contrary to popular belief, the defendants in Big Tech’s latest patent litigation argue that bigger firms utilize their clout to squeeze rivals.

The British competition regulator declared that Alphabet’s child firm Google’s measures to permit app developers to bypass Google Play’s invoicing mechanism appeared to be adequate to allay its reservations about in-app purchases.

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The entire monopoly Google has over in-app purchases has, according to the Competition and Markets Authorities (CMA) of Britain, unjustly constrained developers by requiring them to adopt Google Play’s charging system, decreasing competition and harming users.

According to the CMA, Google’s suggestions would let app creators provide another means of payment of their choice or give customers the option of choosing from that method and Google Play’s payment system.

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I am a student pursuing my bachelor’s in information technology. I have a interest in writing so, I am working a freelance content writer because I enjoy writing. I also write poetries. I believe in the quote by anne frank “paper has more patience than person

Scan.com raises $12m for US and UK expansion

An ineffective public medical system has provided an ideal environment for health IT businesses to thrive, tackling issues like shortages of staff and enhancing radiologists’ software infrastructure. One such business is Scan.com, a healthcare imaging firm with offices in London that links patients with facilities for MRI, ultrasound, CT scans & X-ray scans.

As it seeks to improve on its latest U.S. debut, the firm today revealed that it has raised twelve million dollars in an initial round of funding.

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The issue, stated by Scan.com, lies in the fact that regardless of whether a patient can schedule an initial visit with a doctor, the referral procedure that follows to obtain the necessary scan can take months to complete, and they may then endure waiting even longer for the results to arrive.

Scan.com is collaborating with numerous scanning facilities to provide users with convenient reports that are complete with clickable graphics and are provided within a week. This allows people to get healthcare imaging services regardless of a general practitioner’s referral.

By paying in advance to guarantee their scan, members of Scan.com’s digital referral program are then scheduled for a virtual meeting with a doctor within forty-eight hours.

If a scan reveals a critical issue, the patient is placed in Scan.com’s urgent findings pathway, during which a clinical team gets in touch with them to talk about the findings and provide advice to determine what to do next.

“Our clinical team offers consultations and guidance to all patients once they’ve booked, which is a core part of the service we offer,” Scan.com CEO Charlie Bullock explained to TechCrunch. “Their time is included in our scan pricing, which is why we take payment at the point of booking. During the consultation, the clinician can amend the scan type, add or amend body parts, and ensure the scan is both safe and medically justified for the patient’s needs.”

Khalid Latief & Jasper Nissim, two doctors who organized testing for the patients they treated, launched Scan.com about five years ago after growing frustrated with the inefficiencies in the process. Scan.com debuted its service in the United States two months back, and as of now, it has about 30 staff working in both the UK as well as the US.

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With an additional 12 million USD in cash on hand, Scan.com is well-positioned to keep up its U.S. broadening and expanding the scope of its offerings to include things like DEXA scans, echocardiograms, as well as mammograms. The company is also well-funded to pursue business contracts with companies that offer digital health services, staff benefits platforms, and other trade associations.

“Medical imaging covers such a variety of modalities that our focus is to launch as many of these as we can,” Bullock said. “Alongside scans, we also want to design pathways to add value for our patients, such as guided injections for pain relief, or adding in-vitro testing and pathology solutions to our preventative screenings to make them more comprehensive.”

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What is Minecraft Legends? Everything we know so far

Leave a Comment / Story, Tech Story / By Sandhya Gupta

Real-time action-strategy video game Minecraft Legends was created by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive in 2023 and released by Xbox Game Studios. It was published on April 18, 2023, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It is the fifth spin-off of the 2011 sandbox game Minecraft.

Action game mechanics are used in the action tactics video game Minecraft Legends, which also contains strategic components at its foundation. It is viewed from a third-person viewpoint. The multiplayer in the game supports both collaborative and competitive play.

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The events of Minecraft Legends occur in the world of Minecraft during an invasion by piggins from the Nether. A great hero (the player) carries their banner to save the Overworld and gathers its mobs to assist in defending their home as the Nether spreads its evil over the Overworld.

The events in Legends occur in a story that has been carried down through the ages and is neither true nor false in the world of Minecraft. In Minecraft Legends, pigling mobs will make a comeback and play a key part as the game’s main adversaries.

The primary danger to towns in the game, in addition to your opponents in RTS engagements, is predicted to come from these visitors from the Nether. Real-time action-packed strategy game Minecraft Legends is more about protecting your settlement from attackers than it is about relaxing sandbox crafting.

There will be some construction components in the mix but don’t anticipate them to take center stage in this game. It can be described as”a colorful mix of RTS and building”.

This initial look at the gameplay also features some story cutscenes, indicating that Minecraft Legends will have both a storyline and passive, non-interactive areas where you can get to know the characters a little better.

Since Minecraft: Story Mode has been available for a while, this isn’t the first time that it has done anything similar, but it’s an intriguing indication that Legends will be shifting farther away from the sandbox to something more specifically goal-oriented.

In Minecraft Legends, the piggins will fall into one of many distinct groups, each with unique functions and visual characteristics. Mook-level foes like Grunters and Runts, beefier and more skilled enemies like Bruisers and Portal Guards, and Piggos who look like mounts are Grunters and Runts.

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The creation of Minecraft Legends started in 2018. On June 12, 2022, the game was unveiled at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. Additional platforms were revealed through a trailer posted on the Minecraft YouTube channel after the performance.

It is created by the series’ founders Mojang Studios in association with Blackbird Interactive, a group established by formerly employed Relic Entertainment personnel and best known for creating the real-time strategy game series Homeworld.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

How Will ChatGPT Change Education and Teaching?

Leave a Comment / Story, Tech Story / By Sandhya Gupta

Over the years, technology has changed schooling in countless ways. Although it has increased students’ and instructors’ access to resources, it has also increased disparities and interruptions in the classroom. Whether one likes it or not, technology in educational settings is likely to stay, and it keeps getting better. In 2022, ChatGPT was released to the general public by OpenAI, a firm that does research and development in the field of artificial intelligence.

Anybody with a gadget and internet connectivity can use ChatGPT for free, thereby rendering it widely accessible, especially for students most of which are online these days.

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An artificial intelligence (AI) computer program called ChatGPT uses its intelligence to interpret and emulate natural human language in the responses it generates.

The AI in the program employs a transformer-based neural network with a sizable database to analyze the incoming data and produce a response. When a human user enters queries or orders into ChatGPT, the AI analyses the text and produces the response according to the neural network data.

As an AI language model, ChatGPT can offer several benefits to education and teaching. ChatGPT can help personalize the learning experience for each student.

By understanding a student’s learning style, strengths, and weaknesses, ChatGPT can create tailored learning experiences that cater to the individual needs of each student. ChatGPT can provide quick and easy access to information on any topic.

Students and teachers can ask questions and receive answers almost instantly, which can help facilitate learning and understanding. It can assist teachers by providing them with real-time feedback on student progress, suggesting appropriate learning resources, and answering students’ questions.

As a language model, ChatGPT can help students improve their writing and communication skills by suggesting vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure. ChatGPT can also help teachers grade assignments more efficiently by providing automated feedback on student work, saving them time and allowing them to focus on other important aspects of teaching.

Overall, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize education and teaching by providing personalized learning, quick access to information, support for teachers, improved language skills, and efficient grading.

The chatbot from OpenAI has already been incorporated into educational technology businesses’ apps, such as Duolingo and Quizlet, which produces digital flashcards and practice exams used by half of the high school pupils in the US.

A fact sheet regarding ChatGPT’s possible influence in classrooms was also created by OpenAI in collaboration with educators. The business claims that when it created a free tool to identify text authored by a chatbot (although its reliability is limited), it also talked to educators.

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The initial buzz surrounding ChatGPT was mostly centered on how effective it is at administering tests. In fact, this was a major selling point for OpenAI when it released GPT-4 in March, the most recent iteration of the big language model that powered the chatbot.

It excelled on the AP exams in a number of subjects, including macroeconomics, psychology, US history, macro-art history, and environmental science.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

Twitter Clashes With Brazil Over School Violence Posts

Leave a Comment / News, Tech News / By Sandhya Gupta

Twitter is under fire in the biggest economy in Latin America for its lax stance on material that is thought to incite violence in schools.

Brazil accuses Twitter of allowing posts that encourage violence in schools. Authorities this week started over 500 requests to remove content and profiles that were initially rejected by Twitter, which has advocated a free-speech attitude since its acquisition by billionaire Elon Musk last year.

Due to the controversial attitude, an executive order was issued late on Wednesday that warns Twitter and other websites of fines or even a possible ban if they don’t comply. cracking down on social networking sites carrying posts celebrating the attacks after a startling rise in homicides in educational facilities across Brazil.

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After putting forward the decree in Brasilia on Wednesday evening, Justice Minister Flavio Dino declared that “a child’s life is worth more than all the terms of use in all the platforms.”

The Justice Ministry’s push comes as the country is still in shock following the murder of four children this month at a creche in the southern state of Santa Catarina, which was committed by a man brandishing a hatchet.

Investigators frequently cite the development of active online communities that praise such assaults as one of the factors contributing to the ongoing rise in school violence. Local media stated that Twitter has started removing some of the content highlighted by the Ministry of Justice as a result of pressure from Brazilian authorities.

However, it is still unknown whether Twitter will comply with the government’s request. In Brazil, occurrences of school violence were uncommon, but researchers at the University of So Paulo have counted 10 cases during the last 13 months. This year, four incidents took place.

According to Carolina Ricardo, executive director of the non-governmental organization Sou da Paz, there is a definite link between attacks and social media networks that disseminate hate speech. She stated, “There’s also a clear reference to the US cases, all recent Brazilian cases were inspired in Columbine’s, so it’s necessary to truly debate social media regulation.”

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Twitter and Brazilian authorities also had a dispute in 2021 over tweets on school violence in the state of Santa Catarina. The dispute started when a judge directed Twitter to take down tweets about a police operation at a school that resulted in the deaths of two children. The judge alleged that the posts broke the nation’s rules prohibiting the spread of violent information.

Following Musk’s takeover, Twitter’s legal policy team, which censors content in response to governmental and legal requests and evaluates law enforcement requests for user data, suffered from “massive cuts”. Since then, other members of the policy team have left on their own volitionally, leaving fewer individuals with the time or knowledge to handle requests from the government.

Sandhya Gupta

I am a law graduate from NLU Lucknow. I have a flair for creative writing and hence in my free time work as a freelance content writer.

US Is Buying Chipmaking Machines From Taiwan More Than Ever

Leave a Comment / News, Tech News / By Suhani Jain

As the Biden administration seeks to revive the local semiconductor industry, US sales of Taiwanese chip-making gear reached an all-new high record in March. According to information from the Ministry of Finance in Taiwan, the country which is a worldwide hub for silicon manufacturing innovations, witnessed a 42.6 percent increase in its chipmaking equipment exports to the US in March compared to the same month last year, setting an all-time high record of 71.3 million USD (RM314.01 million). However, trade in China went down 33.7 percent, marking the tenth consecutive month of a downward spiral.

Taiwan is a key factor in the worldwide supply chain and residence of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) as well as numerous additional key players in the chip industry.

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United States officials took action to establish more sophisticated chipmaking within American borders because of concerns over over-dependence on Taiwan island, which China regards as a portion of its own country.

Due to financial aid and assistance from the state and municipal governments, TSMC is building two fabrication facilities in Arizona.

The chip supply chain is beginning to split apart as a result of US measures to restrict China’s access to essential semiconductor equipment, know-how, and goods. One indication of this is the decline in Taiwan’s shipments of semiconductor machines to China.

A month back, Japan also unveiled intentions for new export limits on chip manufacturing equipment, clearly aiming its limitations at China which is the second-largest economy in the world.

Japan’s move to collaborate with the United States and the Netherlands in banning chip manufacturing equipment exports to China has given the allies strong tools to use in the expanding technological conflict.

The commerce ministry of Japan announced this week that beginning in July, exports of 23 different types of chip technology will require government authorization.

This has an impact on a wide range of businesses, which includes Nikon Corp., Tokyo Electron Ltd., and Screen Holdings Co., which have played a key role in China’s efforts to establish a local chip sector.

“Japan joining the export curbs will do great harm to China’s ability to make and develop chips smaller than 16 nanometers,” said Akira Minamikawa, an analyst at research company Omdia.
Source: bloomberg.com

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American businesses like Applied Materials Inc. were immediately impacted by the regulations when the Biden administration published its extensive limits on chip-related shipments to China in October.

Following the announcement that both the Netherlands along with Japan has joined the China restriction, all the main nations that manufacture chipmaking gear are taking part. The most cutting-edge equipment, involving those that produce logic chips at 16 nm or with more complex geometries, are covered by the constraints.

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