Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring.
Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, yall.
This December-ish roundup lands on the awe-inspiringCold Moon!

Since mylast post, the US patent office issued over 24,547 patents and published over 29,894 patent applications.
Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base.
Ask whats for lunch.

Quite often, the key in of food that you crave for depends on the weather.
A recently publishedpatentfrom IBM reveals its plans to satiate this craving of yours.
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Nike plans to change this aspect of communication and potentially change the sport forever.
The vibration motors will be connected to wireless receivers that receive signals from a smartphone of the team manager.
This setup allows the manager to control the vibrations in the vibration motors to convey instructions to the players.

The manager will also be able to provide instructions to individual players or even the entire team together.
These shin pads are sure to come under scrutiny when they are used on the field.
One such technique is authentication via facial recognition.

A recently publishedpatentfrom Facebook discloses technology for performing accurate liveness detection.
For example, a person typically blinks more than 10 times in a space of a minute.
If after comparison, all movements are determined to be natural, the face is accepted to be live.

This technology will substantially increase the accuracy of authentication via facial recognition.
Now, Amazon is taking bold steps towards a three-dimensional (3D) web.
This 3D interface will allow you to interact with web-pages in a more personal and intuitive way!
Along with them, aquatic species indigenous to reefs is also facing extinction.
But not if Microsoft has a say about it.
The tech giant has come up with an interesting solution.
The data center will be anchored to the ocean floor.
Look out for the latest lunar cycle-based patent update every full moon.
Next up isWolf Moonin late January.
New year, new moon!
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