There’s been much ado lately about tech companies monitoring our activities, but the newest tracking feature from Qualcomm is one that most people probably won’t mind. A patent filing published earlier this month reveals its plans to equip headsets with a sensor that will be able to tell whether you’re listening to music and change the…
Author: Leon Doitscher
Leon is the founder of Declassifiled. Before turning his attention to the patent world, he spent over five years reporting on technology and technology policy in various business-facing capacities. When he's not busying writing his own biography in third person, he enjoys Mozart operas, classic literature and hiking.
LG’s future monitors will cool themselves
Centuries after William of Ockham first uttered the wisdom that the simplest answer is usually the right one, it still holds true for even the most modern of problem-solving exercises. The geeks at LG are apparently well-versed in the truth of that saying judging by one of the latest patents to have come out of…
Here’s what Qualcomm plans to do about smartphone zombies
Sometimes, the right decision is the hardest to make. Case in point, the impossibility of dissuading some people from walking down the street with their eyes glued to their phones has led Qualcomm to come up with an answer that actually makes it easier to do so in an effort to lower the impact on…
Apple has found a brilliant way to make video stills less awful
If you’ve ever tried capturing a still while shooting video on your phone, you probably know that the image can turn out more grainy than a Panera Bread sandwich even with the recording quality set to the highest resolution. So you end up trying and trying again until finally settling for the least disappointing shot,…
VMware is bringing augmented reality into the data center
The world’s largest organizations have automated many of the manual activities involved in running their infrastructure over the last few years, but the actual legwork is still done the old fashion way. VMware is betting that augmented reality will provide the missing piece needed to change that. A recently published patent application from the software…
HP’s security engine can deploy countermeasures against hackers
HP isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think about security software, but it’s actually pretty high up the list in the data center. That’s the product of a very simple reality: companies don’t buy hardware to fill floor space, they buy hardware to run their applications, which need to be…