Apple on Thursday confirmed acquiring the Israeli startup Q.ai, in what appeared to be part of the tech giant’s efforts to make inroads into the wearables market, with the aid of artificial intelligence.
The purchase cost Apple almost $2 billion, people familiar with the terms told the Financial Times. Industry press said it was the second-largest acquisition in the company’s history, after its purchase of the Beats music giant in 2014.
Q.ai is tight-lipped in public about its technology, but patents it filed show tech being used in headphones or glasses using “facial skin micro movements” for nonverbal communication, according to the FT.
The move may be a component of Apple’s strategy for “wearable” products, such as smart glasses. Software that reads facial expressions could potentially make way for a hands-free user interface that doesn’t require talking out loud, reports noted.
oh yeah i figured it was something like this, treating their literal captive population like guinea pigs instead of human beings. Of course. It’s what fascists DO. Just like what German fascists did to Jews, just like what Japanese fascists did to the Chinese.
I’m dreading the eventuality that the united states will begin doing it to people it decides post-hoc are “foreign”, like fully fledged citizens it chooses to “denaturalize” because
it wants an excuse to murder with impunitythey’re not “american” enough…you’d think there’d be at least one group on earth who would know better than anyone to let this shit slide,
but instead Israel is ROLLING in that shit like it’s a luxurious mudbath at a spa.
utterly hideous behavior no matter who does it, but with added hypocrisy.