Apple wants to know how you’re feeling. It has acquired an artificial intelligence company that uses facial recognition to read a person’s emotions. Emotient, Inc.’s technology analyzes facial expressions to measure emotions like joy, surprise, fear, anger, disgust and contempt. Apple wouldn’t directly confirm the purchase, but emailed a statement that read, “Apple buys smaller…
Will Alphabet pass Apple in the race to become a trillion dollar company next year? It wasn’t that long ago that many investors assumed Apple (AAPL, Tech30) would get there first. At its peak price earlier this year, Apple had a market value of nearly $775 billion. Alphabet, which I’m now going to refer to…
Apple has said that a proposed encryption bill in the U.K. Parliament would send the tech sector into chaos. The Investigatory Powers Bill would give British law enforcement increased powers to collect people’s private communications, and it would require foreign companies to comply with U.K. warrants. Tech companies and lawmakers have differing views about how…
Imagine being charged with a DUI when it’s been hours since you’ve had a drink, only to later discover that your body brews its own alcohol. That’s what happened to an upstate New York woman when she blew a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. Just before Christmas in Hamburg, New…
Microsoft said Wednesday that it will now notify people if their accounts have been targeted or compromised by a government. “We’re taking this additional step of specifically letting you know if we have evidence that the attacker may be ‘state-sponsored’ because it is likely that the attack could be more sophisticated or more sustained than…
Think you eat well? The truth is, most of us could do a lot better. Some 87% of American adults fall short on the recommended intake of veggies, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 92% of us are missing the mark on whole grains. But you don’t need radical…
Bullying. Sexual harassment. Terrorist plots. Anonymous social media apps have been called havens for any number of these activities. Anonymous apps have found themselves spotlight over the years: One saw so much harassment that it led to the murder of a college student, while another has been dubbed the ‘hot new thing’ among jihadists. Whisper,…
If messaging apps are the future, Kik is positioning itself to take over. According to a new report from Pew Research Center, 36% of smartphone users use messaging apps such as Kik, WhatsApp or iMessage. Among the younger set, they’re even more popular: 49% of smartphone users ages 18 to 29 use these types of…
Have you heard before about shodan.io ? ( https://www.shodan.io/ ) Shodan is a search engine that lets the user find specific types of computers (routers, servers, etc.) connected to the internet using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a search engine of service banners, which are meta-data the server sends back…
Hyatt Hotels data is the latest to fall prey to hackers. The company said Wednesday that it is investigating malware it found on computers used to process customers’ payments, and Hyatt (H) is consulting with cyber security experts. The data breach only affected properties managed by Hyatt and not franchise locations, the company said. As…