Apple’s Acquisition of Emotient Apple just bought a technology company dedicated to facial expression recognition called Emotient. I have to admit that this kind of thing gives me chills, or fear, or I don’t know. I’m not talking about the acquisition itself (which should scare us anyway because of the tremendous power that large companies possess and how they buy each other out), but about the recognition of human facial expressions. ...
I suppose you already know that Google knows everything about us. Our age, our interests, everything we search for, everything we save in our favorites; with every click, every search, every upload, we leave a digital fingerprint (in both senses of the word). Google knows it all, and now, with its Android operating system—present on more than 80%(*) of phones worldwide—it has another eye: geolocation. Our smartphones that run Android (Samsung, Google Nexus, LG, HTC, Huawei, etc…) by default record the history of all our locations. To test it, all you need to do is visit this URL: ...