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Google acquires company with facial recognition tech

Google hasn’t been afraid to acquire companies in the past and on Friday it was revealed that Google had bought out a company whose focus was creating facial recognition technology. The Wall Street Journal reports that PittPatt (short for Pittsburgh … Continue reading

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Video shows off PS Vita’s facial recognition software

Sony’s announcement at E3 2011 last month that its next generation portable game console would officially be called the PS Vita was joined by some of the games that will be included when the console is launched sometime late this … Continue reading

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Google Could Add Face Recognition to Google Profiles

Florian Rohrweck found a lot of interesting things analyzing Google’s code. For example, Google Profiles will add an option that will allow Google to recognize your face in other people’s photos. Picasa Web’s name tags can become global: a new … Continue reading

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Voice Recognition To Accompany Chrome

Google is known for experimenting and the search engine giant has announced that it is bringing speech recognition to desktop and laptop versions of Chrome browser. It is to be noted that Voice input is one of the most widely … Continue reading

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Facebook facial recognition: What the web is saying

Another week, another Facebook privacy firestorm. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based social networking giant came under fire once again this week for potentially violating users’ privacy, after online security firm Sophos issued an alert Tuesday that Facebook had quietly turned on … Continue reading

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