(Reuters) – Facebook Inc is opening up its face recognition technology to all users with an option to opt out, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it discontinued a related feature called “Tag Suggestions.” The old feature enabled users to choose whether Facebook…
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You should be aware by now that Facebook has taken a rather extreme stance when it comes to protecting its trademark. This stance has essentially evolved to consist of this: it will dispute pretty much anything else on the internet that has the word “book”…
Read MoreDixie State University’s new logo has already created some controversy, but not because of the mascot itself. Rather, it was a Facebook post during last week’s 4/20 cannabis culture holiday that had school authorities scrambling to stop what they said was trademark infringement. DSU student…
Read MoreSan Francisco – Apple siap bersaing dengan rivalnya Google dan Facebook dalam mengembangkan teknologi Artificial Intelligence (AI) setelah mereka mengakuisisi sebuah perusahaan bernama Emotient. Emotient dikenal sebagai perusahaan startup yang fokus pada pengembangan kecerdasan buatan (AI) untuk mendeteksi emosi atau mood pada wajah manusia. Dikutip…
Read MoreDon’t look now, but Facebook may get yet another way to track you: your camera. According to a new “image fingerprinting” patent filed by the company in January (that’s Patent Publication US 20150124107 to you), the tech Facebook is developing could identify the exact camera used to shoot…
Read MoreIt might be time to purge your Facebook friends list of people you don’t trust. Facebook could soon take the old adage ‘you can judge a man by the company he keeps’ to the next level. A patent acquired by Facebook states that users could…
Read MoreFacebook has been granted an updated patent from the U.S. Patent office on a technology that can help lenders discriminate against certain borrowers based on the borrower’s social network connections. The patent describes a technology that tracks the way users are connected in a network….
Read MoreSilicon Valley companies rally around Samsung with supporting statement arguing that Apple’s patent litigation is damaging to the industry. Google, Facebook, Dell, HP, eBay and a collection of other large Silicon Valley companies have sided with Samsung in its battle over patents with Apple. The…
Read MoreWe all knew Apple (AAPL) and Samsung’s patent war would never end. And, you know what, it hasn’t. Last May, a federal appeals court overturned about 40 percent of the $930 million a jury awarded Apple in 2012 resulting from the first of two high-profile, titanic…
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