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This much is certain: Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is coming to the US. But there’s a lot that has to happen before you’ll be able to buy a Xiaomi phone meant for the States, and the pieces won’t come together in 2016. Click to read more of Jessica’s tech stories from Asia. Mark Hobbs/CNET “The …

Nvidia may have just dodged a bullet. The company on Monday said it has reached a settlement with Samsung to end all pending intellectual property litigation in the US. The deal was just in time — the US International Trade Commission was slated to issue a decision later Monday as to whether it would ban Nvidia products from sale in …

Other smart contact lenses are focused on improving vision or providing an augmented reality HUD, but Sony wants to look outwards rather than in. A new patent, awarded to the company in April, describes a contact lens that can be controlled by the user’s deliberate blinks, recording video on request. Sensors embedded in the lens are able to detect the …

Up next in “terrifying things I don’t ever want to have done”: Google has filed a patent for a vision-correcting electronic device that has to be injected directly into your eye. The device, Forbes reports, is designed to help the focusing of light onto the retina, resulting in the correction of poor vision. It will contain its own storage, radio …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung gets the green light for augmented-reality contacts 1:07 With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality. Samsung has received a patent for “smart” contact lenses, which it originally filed in …

Looks like delaying Apple court sessions is becoming a trend. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh late Tuesday granted Samsung’s motion to put a damages retrial on hold until the Supreme Court can review the case. The trial was scheduled to start Monday in San Jose, California, and would have taken about a week. The delay comes only a couple days …

Apple’s years-long fight with Samsung Electronics over design patents will make its way to the US Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court on Monday agreed to review the case, the first time it has looked at a design patent case since the 1800s. Samsung filed a request with the Supreme Court in December to re-examine the case after losing in …

A US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a 2014 jury verdict that had found Samsung Electronics infringed on three of Apple’s patents and had awarded the iPhone maker $119.6 million. Apple originally had sought $2.2 billion, claiming Samsung infringed on eight software patents. Apple maintained that Samsung infringed on patents for sliding to unlock the phone, autocorrecting text …

Apple sure isn’t impressed by Samsung’s Supreme Court plea. On Thursday, the iPhone maker filed its response to Samsung’s request for the US Supreme Court to examine the patent infringement suit between the two electronics giants. And shocker, it doesn’t want this thing to drag out. Apple argued that the case is “legally unexceptional” and asked the court not to …

Imagine commanding your iPhone or iPad without your finger actually touching the screen. A new Apple patent proposes just that. The patent “Proximity and multi-touch sensor detection and demodulation,” granted Tuesday to Apple by the US Patent and Trademark Office, describes sensors that detect the position and motion of your finger or fingers hovering above the screen. Your device would …