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Microsoft joins Open Invention Network and open sources its patent portfolio
Microsoft has joined the “largest patent non-aggression community in history”, the Open Invention Network (OIN), effectively open-sourcing almost its entire patent portfolio. The company has shown …
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Coding and Invention Made Fun
While walking through London’s Science Museum, I stumbled into SAM Labs’ Internet of Things (IoT) pop up shop, where I saw a brief demonstration of this drum machine kit. I was quickly sucked in and w…
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Microsoft adds 60,000 patents to the Open Invention Network
Microsoft announced today that it’s joined open-source patent group Open Invention Network in an effort to help shield Linux and other open-source software from patent-related suits. As part of …
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Almanac: The invention of carbon paper
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac, October 7, 1806, 212 years ago today … a date for an achievement that was anything but singular. For that was the day carbon paper was patented by the …
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