Klobuchar unveils sweeping revamp of antitrust enforcement
The proposed Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act sets a tough tone as she becomes chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.
Cloud OnAir: Cloud Spanner: How It Works - YouTube
Take a trip deep inside the inner workings of Cloud Spanner. In this session, you’ll learn how Cloud Spanner operates and how it guarantees external consistency on reads and writes.
Spanner Internals Part 2: Global Meta-Data and Scalable Data Backend (Cloud Next '19) - YouTube
Let's dive deep into how Cloud Spanner works and how it serves as the foundation for a lot of other Google products and services. Build with Google Cloud → https://bit.ly/2K3Nekb Watch more: Next '19 Databases Sessions here → https://bit.ly/Next19Databases Next ‘19 All Sessions playlist → https://bit.ly/Next19AllSessions Subscribe to the GCP Channel → https://bit.ly/GCloudPlatform Speaker(s): Deepti Srivastava, Denis Serenyi Session ID: DBS306 product:Cloud Firestore,Cloud Spanner; fullname:Denis Serenyi,Deepti Srivastava;
Google Cloud Spanner: the good, the bad and the ugly | by Lightspeed HQ | Medium
As a company that offers multiple cloud-based POS solutions to retailers, restaurateurs and ecommerce merchants around the globe, Lightspeed employs several different types of database platforms for…
FDL | Solving NASA's Toughest Challenges with Google Cloud × Intel
The Frontier Development Lab brings together researchers from various fields to solve scientific challenges through AI technologies in partnership with Google Cloud and Intel.
Attia developed architecture technology called “Engineered Architecture” (EA). Google and Attia worked together on “Project Genie” to implement EA. Attia disclosed his EA trade secrets with the understanding that he would be compensated if the program were successful. After Attia executed patent assignments Google filed patent applications relating to the EA trade secrets and showed a prototype of the EA technology to investors. The patents were published in 2012. Google then allegedly excluded Attia from the project and used Attia’s EA technology to create a new venture. Attia sued Google ...
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol | TechCrunch
Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes in internet privacy that many don’t know even exists. Dubbed Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, or ODoH for short, the new protocol makes it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit. But […]
How does Intel’s antitrust lawsuit against Fortress change the patent narrative? — Markman Advisors
Intel’s lawsuit takes aim at a new aspect of PAEs. That aspect is patent aggregation. Intel and Apple, two big-tech companies, are seeking a court ruling that would essentially hold that the very act of aggregating patents can give rise to antitrust violations. The implications of that could redound
The Great Escape: Efficient Infringers Increasingly Seek to Abuse Antitrust Law
Last week the Federal Circuit issued an important decision that might be easy to overlook. In Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Federal Circuit dodged the antitrust question presented by finding that a prior ruling had collateral estoppel effect.
Explaining Efficient Infringement – Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property
By Adam Mossoff & Bhamati Viswanathan In a recent New York Times op-ed, “The Patent Troll Smokescreen,” Joe Nocera used in print for the first time the term, “efficient infringement.” This pithy phrase quickly gained currency if only because it captures a well-known phenomenon that has been i
This final Keynote is dedicated to developers, focusing on Google’s commitment to open source with talks from Jeff Dean, Senior Google Fellow and leader of t...
Cloud OnAir: Cloud Spanner: How It Works - YouTube
Take a trip deep inside the inner workings of Cloud Spanner. In this session, you’ll learn how Cloud Spanner operates and how it guarantees external consiste...
Google Cloud Spanner: Global consistency at scale by Robert Kubis - YouTube
Live coding and demos! In this presentation you'll learn how Spanner differs from traditional RDBMS, how those differences enable unique capabilities, and ho...
Are Law Firms Sustainable? It's The Model That Matters
Are law firms booming or dying? There are plenty of pundits on either side. But there's not much focus on law firm models--there's more than one. This article explores why models matter and illuminates some that work well for clients and lawyers/legal professionals.