The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Caltech's Wi-Fi patents, and after a decade-long legal battle, Apple is finally on the hook for the billion-dollar verdict.Decided on Monday, the Supreme Court justices elected not to continue dealing with an appeal by Apple and Broadcom over an earlier court ruling preventing the companies from contesting the California Institute of Technology's Wi-Fi technology patents.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit previously ruled against arguments from the companies to say the patents were invalid, due to a failure to raise them during an earlier hearing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple and Broadcom argued that they could raise the challenges during the trial, but with the…

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Caltech's Wi-Fi patents, and after a decade-long legal battle, Apple is finally on the hook for the billion-dollar verdict.Decided on Monday, the Supreme Court justices elected not to continue dealing with an appeal by Apple and Broadcom over an earlier court ruling preventing the companies from contesting the California Institute of Technology's Wi-Fi technology patents.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit previously ruled against arguments from the companies to say the patents were invalid, due to a failure to raise them during an earlier hearing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple and Broadcom argued that they could raise the challenges during the trial, but with the…

A California hiker who broke her leg was able to get help thanks to the Emergency SOS via satellite service in her iPhone 14. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

A hiker in California's Angelos National Forest was rescued when she was able to use her iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite feature.Rescuers with Juana Reyes and her iPhone. Source; ABC7 Eyewitness NewsFirst introduced in the US with the iPhone 14 range in September 2022, Emergency SOS via Satellite lets users send text messages to rescue services. Since that launch, it was immediately responsible for saving lives, such as the rescue of two stranded women in Canada. Read more...

A hiker in California's Angelos National Forest was rescued when she was able to use her iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite feature.Rescuers with Juana Reyes and her iPhone. Source; ABC7 Eyewitness NewsFirst introduced in the US with the iPhone 14 range in September 2022, Emergency SOS via Satellite lets users send text messages to rescue services. Since that launch, it was immediately responsible for saving lives, such as the rescue of two stranded women in Canada. Read more...

Macworld Along with the second beta of iOS 17, Apple this week released the very first beta visionOS, giving developers who weren’t lucky enough to try Vision Pro at WWDC their first glimpse of the company’s mixed-reality vision of the future. (Without wishing to repeat the F word too often, Apple describes the software as its “first spatial operating system.”) You don’t need an actual Vision Pro headset to explore the software, which is fortunate since they won’t go on sale until sometime next year. You only need the latest Xcode beta. It’s still early days, but a few interesting titbits have emerged already. For instance, there are several Environments present in the beta, which can be used to shut…