That has existed since the early 2010s. This patent should have been rejected on the grounds that it is insufficiently innovative.
(To say nothing of the idiocy of the idea. Patents aren't concerned whether your ideas are idiotic or not, just whether they're new enough that you deserve credit for them)
Ditch Google Play !
You can use Obtainium and F-Droid to install apps as directly from the Developer as possible.
You can use Aurora Store to get things from the App Store anonymously.
If you want, you can install /e/os (any phone) or GrapheneOS (Pixels only) to de-google your Android as much as possible !
"Notorious fool joins band of other notorious fools"
According to the Financial Times, he said that creating regulatory barriers would be harmful in a context of rapid technological advancement.
Are we on a context of rapid technological advancement ? I would say we are in a context of dire technological stagnation.
«AI» is a mirage that is utterly failing at pretty much everything it is applied to, and in every other domain I would say tech progress is coming to a halt now that our new feudal lords have conquered so much of the market.
This push by the EU is, apart from digital sovereignty, a very necessary push to get some innovation going again. I hope more complementary measures will follow ; we really need hardware sovereignty as well.
The article isn't clear on one thing : was it an analog or digital signal ?
The results are entirely unsurprising if the signal was digital. Also, I'd like to see a similar test in an environment with more electrical interference, I think the unshielded materials would fare less well there.
Break any pair you see out in public. Don't assault the user, only break their glasses !