Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...

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“[I]t seems clear that the Supreme Court did not intend to categorically prohibit patenting of everything which can be characterized as an abstract idea…” This is part two of a three-part article ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...