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Jury: Google Didn’t Infringe on Oracle Patents

A federal jury in San Francisco has decided that Google didn't infringe on Oracle's patents when the search company developed its popular Android software for mobile devices.

“What we’re working on now feels like the most important and the best work we’ve done…”

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– Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design for Apple, in an interview with The Telegraph.

Facebook, Wall Street Banks Sued Over Pre-IPO Financial Forecasts

Just days after its controversial IPO, Facebook and its Wall Street bankers have been hit by shareholder lawsuits alleging that the social networking giant and its underwriters concealed the company’s decelerating revenue growth from investors.

Glasses Could Help the Blind See like Geordi La Forge in ‘Star Trek’

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The Monash Vision Group is working on a pair of ordinary-looking glasses outfitted with two digital cameras that will let the wearer “see” whatever the glasses are pointed at.

10 Quick Tech Links: Apple Designer Knighted, Facebook Lawsuits, Death to Rickroll and More

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Here’s a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web for Wednesday, May 23.

Xbox 360 Should Be Banned from U.S. for Violating Patents, Judge Says

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 should be banned from import and sales in the United States for violating Motorola patents, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled.

Digitimes on Digitimes: We Know What We’re Doing, and We’ll Try to Do Better

Digitimes

The Taiwanese news site, where many Apple rumors originate, defends itself but says it’ll do a better job of vetting future scoops.

Facebook IPO Furor: Feds Probing Deal over Insider Bank Warnings

Facebook’s Wall Street investment banks warned top clients of new doubts about the social network’s financial prospects just days before the company’s IPO, according to a series of reports that emerged Tuesday.

How Insect-Inspired Legs Could Help Robots Walk on Asteroids

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While a James Cameron-backed asteroid mining company might have an abundance of money and imagination, the actual technology to mine asteroids doesn’t exist… yet.

MIT Scientists Figure Out How to Get Ketchup Out of the Bottle

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In a boon for burger fans everywhere, impatiently tapping our ketchup bottles might be a thing of the past thanks to something called LiquiGlide.

Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote, Dies at 96

Zenith

A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died.