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Apple patent shows reworked bumper within Project Titan effort

Apple’s autonomous vehicle project, also known as “Project Titan,” may incorporate an incredibly different bumper upon its arrival. Per a recently published patent for a patent filed in 2016, Apple’s bumper would include an inflatable structure between the bumper cover and car body. It would also be able to retract to reduce the length of […]

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Hauwei delays launch of Mate X smartphone with foldable screen, cites quality assurance-based reasons

Foldable screens are en route, but they may be a while yet in arriving. Huawei on Friday confirmed that the company is delaying the launch of its Mate X foldable smartphone from June to September given quality assurance purposes. A spokesperson for Huawei said the Chinese smartphone maker is being more “cautious” after some reviewers […]

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Apple patent shows Apple involved in work on “hybrid” displays, mixing OLED and quantum-dot LED technologies

A recently-published Apple patent filing indicates that Apple may be working on a “hybrid” display that mixes both OLED and quantum-dot LEDs. The U.S. filing, no. 20,190,131,356, describes a “tandem hybrid pixel” with an OLED subpixel and a quantum dot subpixel, plus various needed transport layers and cathodes.  Quantum Dots are photoluminescence particles embedded in […]

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Apple patent describes method in which Touch ID could span an entire iPhone display

While Touch ID is no longer offered as a means of biometric authentication on current model iPhones and iPad Pro tablets, Apple may be considering the possibility of adding fingerprint recognition to its mobile devices, by using acoustic imaging on the display.

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Apple granted 37 patents in one day, descriptions could point towards wraparound display, smart fabrics, multi-device charging unit

It was a huge day for Apple patents, the company being granted 37 of them on Tuesday from devices with a feature that could make the “scroll speed proportionate to tilt angle” to others relating to a “multi-device charging” and “smart fabric”/ Which, by anyone’s estimate, is a whole lot of patents. The main takeaway […]