LawBeat

Calcutta HC Holds Graphical User Interfaces Can Be Registered as Designs; Sets Aside Controller’s Orders

Calcutta High Court holds that graphical user interfaces are not excluded from design protection under the Designs Act and ...
Bar & Bench

Screen icons and layouts on phones, computers can be registered under Designs Act: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court recently held that icons, menus and screen layouts on phones and computers can qualify as registrable “designs” under the Designs Act, 2000. [Nec Corporation v. Controller of ...

Windows 11’s Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

When Asus and Microsoft launched the ROG Xbox Ally X last summer, it came with a bespoke controller-driven full-screen ...
Wired

Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Interface

“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf. Ask Maps is first coming to Google Maps users in the US and ...

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there ...