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The top patent earner in Missouri last year

2 years 7 months ago
Tech and engineering firms were the most inventive patent winners across the U.S. last year—a year marked by growing tension with foreign nations racing to bring world-changing tech like artificial intelligence and space satellites to market. Nearly 160,000 patents were assigned across the U.S. in 2022, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. When [...]
Stacker

Building homeless shelters in LA is all but impossible

2 years 7 months ago
Here's a different look at the homeless in Los Angeles: Over the course of more than a decade, LA has managed to add 6,000 shelter beds for the homeless. That's about 10% of the 55,000 needed. Last year they added 1,100, about 2% of what's needed.
Kevin Drum

This Week In Techdirt History: June 25th – July 1st

2 years 7 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a court shut down attempts by ISPs to use the net neutrality repeal to dodge lawsuits for bad service, while California was trying to keep its push for its own net neutrality law alive (at the same time as lobbyists were descending on the state to shape a […]
Leigh Beadon