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The last time U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled on a case involving Donald Trump and his alleged hoarding of classified documents, the dressing-down from appellate judges above her was stern and blunt.Last year, Cannon, a Trump appointee, approved Trump's demand for an outside arbiter to examine documents that federal agents had seized from the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot will direct at least half of Chicago's advertising spending toward local media, with a goal of reaching non-English speakers with information on services and establishing equity in where city ads are placed, she announced Wednesday.Lightfoot signed the executive order mandating that all city departments direct at least 50% of their advertising budgets to local and ethnic media outlets.

by Dennis Crouch
The decision in Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Google LLC, - F.4th - (Fed.Cir.2023), underscores the importance of adhering to the PTAB procedural requirements, particularly the prohibition against incorporating arguments by reference from one document into another during an IPR, as stipulated in 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(a)(3).

In spite of robust amicus backing, including from the US Solicitor General, the Supreme Court has declined to review two pending patent-eligibility petitions: Interactive Wearables v. Polar and Tropp v. Travel Sentry.These cases contended that the Alice/ Mayo framework produced (1) instability and unpredictability in the law; (2) facilitated non-evidence based judgments by district courts; and (3) prohibited patenting of subject matter that has traditionally been eligible for patents.

"VLSI's complicated structure is having its intended effect-allowing Fortress and VLSI's investors to control VLSI and reap any benefits from this suit, while concealing their identities from the Court and the public."- Intel Supplemental Brief
Intel Corp. has asked the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to throw out a $4.1 billion patent lawsuit from VLSI Technology in a filing unsealed Friday, December 9.
Intel claimed that VLSI "has repeatedly failed to disclose its full ownership as required," and the company's "opaque ownership structure is an entrenched feature of hedge fund-driven patent litigation."

"[USPTO-certified] CLE may or may not be a good idea.However, as proposed in the Proposed CLE Guidelines, it can't work." - David Boundy
Today, the Federal Register published a final interim rule submitted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that will eliminate provisions within the agency's rules of practice establishing a voluntary program for certifying the completion of continuing legal education (CLE) credits by registered patent practitioners and those granted limited recognition to practice in patent matters before the USPTO.

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals continues to strike down patents directed to abstract ideas under the Alice test for patent subject matter eligibility.In People.ai,Inc. v. Clari Inc. (Fed.Cir.2023) U.S. App.LEXIS 8294, the court invalidated seven patents owned by People.ai.A patent protects an invention.

by Dennis Crouch
Petitioners in Thaler v. Vidal ask the Supreme Court one simple question:
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term 'inventor' to human beings alone?Thaler Petition for Writ of Certiorari.Only a court with substantial hubris would be willing to take-on this case, but I'm confident that the Supreme Court is up for the task.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to an accelerated hearing schedule for the state's appeal of a downstate judge's ruling that struck down a state ban on certain high-powered semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines.The high court will hear oral arguments on the matter during its May term, according to an unsigned order issued Tuesday.

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.Sign up to get it by email.My media diet is admittedly pretty U.S.-centric.But as much as I love dissecting the ending of Succession or watching one juror participate in an off-the-walls trial while unaware that everyone around him is an actor, there's something unique about watching an Australian show or movie and getting a little jolt of recognition each time I see a recognizable location or hear a familiar slang word.

In the prologue to Darrin Bell's expansive debut graphic memoir, The Talk, he illustrates, in comics, his memory of being six years old and coming face to face with a pack of snarling, snaggle-toothed dogs.The children around him kneel and hold out their hands to the terrifying animals, but in the moment young Bell can only freeze.

LOS ANGELES The photography of Uta Barth unites the conceptual rigor that is characteristic of Germany, where she was born, with the fascination with light and space of California, where she has lived for the last 40 years.Countering the instantaneous shutter click of the camera, Barth, who is 65, frequently works in series to explore how shifts in light alter our perception of a scene.

The Jewish deli is such a defining part of New York City that it might as well be the very air we breathe (along with pizza, dim sum, Trinidadian doubles and curbside halal).On Friday, an exhibit about just that arrives at the New-York Historical Society on the Upper West Side.I'll Have What She's Having': The Jewish Deli is by all indications the most sweeping survey of this culinary institution attempted by a major museum, Adam Nagourney wrote in The Times when the show made its debut in Los Angeles this summer.

Tumblr, the once-popular social media platform, is again allowing nudity, four years after announcing a ban on explicit content.We now welcome a broader range of expression, creativity, and art on Tumblr, including content depicting the human form (yes, that includes the naked human form), the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

An ITV executive has defended the network's duty of care to staff after Phillip Schofield's widely-publicised affair with a much younger colleague.The This Morning host left ITV last month after admitting he lied to bosses and workmates about the affair.There have also been allegations of a wider "toxic" culture at the programme.

On TikTok, there are long videos about Eros and Psyche, or the wedding of Hera and Zeus, that have racked up more than five million views.These clips are so expansive (at least, by social media standards) that their creator actor Pol Gise has to divide them each into two parts, since TikTok doesn't allow videos lasting longer than ten minutes.

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This article explains how to access and use Bing AI, including details on its capabilities and limitations.How to Use Bing AI Search
Microsoft's Bing search engine has a built-in artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that's based on GPT-4, which is a version of the same technology that's behind ChatGPT.

ENOUGH: Three Poems by Tenika Stallings
On the Other Side of the Door A punch, kick, and a smack to the face These are just a few of the acts my mind can't erase
Taking my phone so I couldn't call for help Choking me so hard, barely able to let out a yelp
Locking me in the room away from my kid These are just some of the treacherous things that you did
Taking the keys to my car while I slept so you could joyride In it your secret rendezvous and crack habits you would hide
Having me cower on bended knee under your fist Holding too tight of a grip on my left and right wrist
Hearing my kid call for mommy from the other side of the door Not knowing that I'm bleeding out on the living room floor
Black eyes and neck impressions from the same hands I used to love The next time I see them each will be encased with a glove
To leave no evidence this time-the crime never took place No matter how many tears you saw streaming down my face
No matter how many times my kid screamed Daddy, no!!

ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women, trans, and nonbinary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence Before my father killed her, my mother spent her evenings telling me the story of how she came to America.

1. Climate change is causing more extreme and unpredictable wildfires, which can have major impacts on ecosystems and human lives.
2. Fire management strategies should be adapted to the changing environment to minimize the damage caused by wildfires.
3. Fire is a natural part of many ecosystems and can be beneficial in

Do you feel you're fighting your tools?Do you feel you're relying too much on autocomplete and inline documentation?...always kinda guessing when using libraries?Or maybe not, but getting things done just seems harder than it should be.This can have many causes, but I've repeatedly seen junior developers struggle with a specific one, not even fully aware they're struggling in the first place.

Students who enter college with undeclared majors are considered a high-risk group.In addition, many decide on a major and then have doubts about their choice.An estimated 61 percent of college grads would change their undergraduate majors if they could go back, according to a 2022 survey from BestColleges.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Jan. 23-29.Details and times are subject to change.THE BACHELOR 8 p.m. on ABC.This long-running reality dating series is back for its 27th season.

Eater Miami is a local news site based in Miami, Florida, covering the area's vibrant restaurant and bar scene, dining and culinary trends, food pop-ups and food trucks, and the business of food and drink throughout the Miami metropolitan area and South Florida.As part of the Eater network and under the Vox Media umbrella, Eater Miami is dedicated to providing a fresh, local perspective on the city's food scene.

The topic of motherhood may be universaleveryone has something to say about the experience of mothering, being mothered, or the absence thereofbut it's far from simple.For some, motherhood can be a source of joy and strength; for others, it's a reminder of pain, loss, or frustration.This spring, motherhood takes center stage in a number of new books that explore the diversity of what it means to be a mother, to do mothering work, to receive caregiving from a mother or mother figure, or, in some cases, to divest from it.

I used to have, or rather hoard, a lot of books.Still do, I think, at least by the standards of the average home, but I'm doing my best to get rid.In the last couple of years I have given away hundreds.If the thought of this fills you with horror, then maybe look away from this next part, where I confess that sometimes I even put them in the recycling.

Scholar Mike Davis, in an undated photo provided by his publisher.Verso Mike Davis, a kind of tectonic-plate thinker whose books transformed how people, in Los Angeles in particular, understood their world, died on October 25th at his home in San Diego at the age of 76.His death was marked by his publishing house, Verso, and by numerous friends and fans on social media.

We are always on the lookout for the perfect finishing touches for our Paris vacation rentals and fractional co-ownership properties.Whether that's scouring the flea markets for just the right sized antique mirror or bringing a beautiful chandelier back to life, the décor for our apartments is all carefully selected.

In 1434, the high-tech medium of oil paint allowed the Flemish master Jan van Eyck to infuse his sumptuous double portrait of the Arnolfinis with astonishing depth.He couldn't resist showing off a little more: A convex mirror on the back wall contains a tiny self-portrait of the painter at work.Six centuries later, when the multimedia artist and writer Seth Price includes an illusionistic mirrored sphere in the upper left of Thought Comes from the Body II, a big, crackled black and Day-Glo painting on panel, it still signals virtuosity.

Content moderation is a notoriously nasty job, and the burgeoning labor outsourcing industry surrounding it routinely faces heated scrutiny for the ethics of its approach to subjecting human workers to the internet's darkest corners.On Wednesday, published a new investigative deep dive into Sama, a company that recently provided OpenAI with laborers solely tasked with reading some of the worst content the internet has to offer.

There's a new chatbot in town, OpenAI's ChatGPT.It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge and it will write short documents in various formats and in excellent English.Or write bad poetry, incomprehensible jokes, and obey a command like "Write Tetris in C." What comes out looks like it could be, too.

The race to create quality, insightful content is only becoming more difficult for marketers.It's already a challenge to secure a high-ranking article on Google - and it's even harder when your business is newer or lacks authority on the search engine.In 2023, many businesses are looking to leverage more tools to increase content output and improve SEO, and AI-generated content is a popular solution.

Thousands of parents and children gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to demand childcare reforms
London has been swarming with protests over the last week, whether it's the kids in Tower Hamlets fighting to save their school street  or Just Stop Oil  causing civil unrest to demand action on climate change, everybody has got something to protest about right now.

In order to work more effectively with advertisers, Hearst Magazines, parent to editorial titles including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, plans to reorganize its internal sales structure around industry categories by the end of the first quarter.The move will shift the sales and marketing staff away from their current title-centric model to better support the objectives of its advertising clients.

It helps to have a cast that feels all-in on everything Seligman is attempting here.Sennott co-wrote the script and she's a performer who feels increasingly fearless with each project.Edebiri finds wonderfully vulnerable and genuine beats in a character that could have felt more superficial.And the supporting cast is phenomenal, particularly Liu and the great Ruby Cruz as Hazel, a young woman who's pushed aside by PJ and Josie's quest for inclusion.

Washingtonian used to run a feature called " Food Money Sex," which we've started, restarted, and abandoned several times.Why? Who can keep track of stuff like that!Perhaps, like its subject matter, it got to be too much work?Anyway, for this Valentine's Day, we salute some memorable moments from the feature's last and possibly best era: The Mimi Montgomery years, which ended in early 2021.

(Universal Pictures via AP)


On Dec. 22, 1985, The Associated Press reported the following from Blue Ridge, Georgia:
Yes, Cocaine Bear is a real movie.And after it opens in theaters Friday, it might even be a hit.Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks' very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story R-rated comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said it would be an outrage for Rishi Sunak to block Scotland's gender self-identification law.The bill pushed by the Scotland's first minister which passed at Holyrood last month will allow trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC) without the need for a medical diagnosis.

Sir Grayson Perry said his knighthood is extra special as him being named in the New Year's Honours List is about his achievements, not class.The 62-year-old artist, writer and broadcaster  known for his tapestries, ceramic works and cross-dressing  has been made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts.

Ministers have heard calls for armed forces personnel to be rewarded if called upon to help cover roles affected by strikes.Conservative MP Richard Drax questioned the Government in the Commons over whether there are any signs of some sort of reward or thank you.Responding at a session of defence questions, defence minister Andrew Murrison said conversations are happening across Whitehall on the subject matter.

Rishi Sunak has told a Cop27 reception hosted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace that the world will experience more human suffering if we continue to allow climate change to ravage our planet.The prime minister is attending the UN climate conference in Egypt next week after a U-turn, but Charles will miss the gathering of world leaders, business figures and environmentalists.

Choosing a topic is a very important stage of paper writing.Remember, a correctly chosen theme greatly simplifies the process of work on a paper, and a bad choice will only complicate your task.Do not postpone the choice for a long time, otherwise, you risk getting the most difficult or boring subject that all your fellow students refused!

Songs in Flight, a new cycle by the composer Shawn Okpebholo, with texts chosen by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, a poet and associate professor at Duke University, had its premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on Thursday.With an opening set by the singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, the concert found uncommon power in the humble format of folk and art songs.

The other day, I headed over to the local ski resort for the first time this season.Last season was my first as an Alpine skier, and I'm still very much a beginner.I'd joined a very beginner group lesson my first time out and had certainly gotten pointers along the way, but my skiing felt mostly like self-taught self-preservation in learning how to stay upright, slow down, and "turn."

For Emily Zurek Small, college did what it's supposed to do.Growing up in a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania, she had career and intellectual ambitions for which college is the clearest pathway.I just kind of always wanted to learn, she told me recently.I wanted to be able to have intelligent conversations with people and know about the world.

Teachers abruptly yanked hundreds of first-graders from the audience of a Fresno children's theater production of Oliver Twist after becoming uncomfortable with the show's dark themes, a school district spokesman said.The following day, middle-schoolers from the same district were a no-show at the performance because of what school administrators deemed PG-rated content.

While new national test results painted a grim picture of student learning during the pandemic, scores in the nation's second largest school district offered a glimmer of hope and signs of improvement.In Los Angeles, the average scores for eighth-grade math and fourth-grade reading held steady between 2019 and 2022, while eighth-grade reading scores in the district saw a nine-point improvementa bright spot amid otherwise steep academic declines on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation's Report Card.

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Data-Driven Thinking " is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.In theory, brand safety is supposed to prevent advertisers from associating their brands with violence, hate and other phenomena that could lead consumers to turn their backs on a brand.

A century ago, a man with a double life published one of the most celebrated, anthologised and dissected poems in English literature.TS Eliot spent six days a week at the offices of Lloyds bank and crammed the business of poetry and literary criticism into the evenings and Sundays.This allowed him to write The Waste Land, a densely allusive work that drew on Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Jacobean tragedy, tarot and the Upanishads to create a dazzling portrait of both the ruins of postwar Europe and the inner alienation of modernity.

Samanta Schweblin is one of a generation of South American female writers whose willingness to experiment with language, content and form has made them some of the most interesting and necessarily provocative voices in literature today (other names include Fernanda Melchor, Maria Gainza, Ariana Harwicz and Pola Oloixarac).

When the American poet Louise Gluck was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2020, the Swedish Academy commended her voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.They might have added that she makes the individual female experience universal, joining it to the canon of male mythology in ways even her titles make clear.

Where There's a Will, There's a Wake With Kathy Burke Somethin' Else/Sony Origins Audible Originals The Art of Longevity The Song Sommelier Late Fragments Acast My Dad Wrote a Porno Acast I'm going to rattle through a few new celebrity interview podcasts this week (you can thank me later, etc).First up: Where There's a Will There's a Wake with the nation's favourite actor turned occasional presenter, Kathy Burke.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now trying to speak directly to trans kids and talk them out of transitioning.It's not going well."If you're under 18 and people are telling you to cut off your breast or have a surgery that turns your penis inside out to make a 'vagina' you're a victim of child abuse," Greene tweeted.

Nothing good has been said about P!nk's new song, Never Gonna Not Dance Again, penned by today's most successful producer and songwriter, Swedish Max Martin (author of 25 number-one hits in the US).Lifeless, generic, tragic and horrible are some of the adjectives that can be found in PopJustice, the most respected specialized pop website.

If there's one takeaway from , Drake and 21 Savage's album that finally arrived on Friday, November 4th, it's that everything that glitters isn't gold.Inspired by the Honestly, Nevermind standout "Jimmy Cooks," Her Loss is a collection of well-produced joints touching on their favorite topics.

Rodney Graham, a critically acclaimed Canadian artist who was known internationally for his evocative and slyly humorous large-scale photographs and short films starring himself that celebrated the banality of everyday life at its most radiant, died in Vancouver on Oct. 22.He was 73.The cause was cancer, according to a joint statement by five galleries that represented him in the United States and Europe.