A new wave of virtual agents, the likes of Cortana, Google and Siri is preparing to take over the web and provide AI assisted search features that will profoundly change the way we use the web. This prediction was made on stage, last week, at the O’Reilly Next: Economy Summit, by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Samsung Electronics is about to do it again, in the wake of its previous success in creating a single 64GB 3D TSV DDR4 module last year, with a 128GB DIMM, once again built for server applications.

The latest waterproofing-related patent, was filed this morning, and was developed by Kind Code’s Lee Sung Chang. The patent, titled “Electronic Devices With Housing Port Shutters”, describes an active method of waterproofing that involves internal shields, or shutters, designed to block liquids and particles from ingress, using a combination of sensors and actuators, the former of which is used to detect proximity of liquids or other airborne particles. Upon detection, the latter actuators will trigger port shutters, actively sealing the device.

As silly as “Beam me that file, will you?” sounds, a data transfer technology developed by Estonian startup Velmenni, called Li-Fi, in 2011, could finally find real-life applications soon, in the wake of recent lab tests, showing speeds 100 times faster than Wi-Fi.