{"id":20557,"date":"2016-01-08T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/apple-acquires-a-startup-that-can-tell-human-emotions-from-facial-expressions"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:09:11","slug":"apple-acquires-a-startup-that-can-tell-human-emotions-from-facial-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/apple-acquires-a-startup-that-can-tell-human-emotions-from-facial-expressions","title":{"rendered":"Apple Acquires a Startup That Can Tell Human Emotions From Facial Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-acquires-a-startup-that-can-tell-human-emotions-from-facial-expressions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analyzing expressions is an increasingly hot topic among tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what it plans to do with it yet, but Apple has gobbled up a startup whose technology can read facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant has reportedly acquired Emotient, a San Diego-based company that uses artificial technology to detect emotion from facial expressions, Apple confirmed to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/apple-buys-artificial-intelligence-startup-emotient-1452188715\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>. The company\u2019s technology has primarily been used by advertisers, doctors, and retailers, though it\u2019s not clear what Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/fortune500\/apple-5\/\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/fortune500\/apple-5\/\">AAPL<\/a> 0.66%<\/a> plans to do with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/07\/apple-emotient-acquisition\/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing expressions is an increasingly hot topic among tech companies. It\u2019s not clear what it plans to do with it yet, but Apple has gobbled up a startup whose technology can read facial expressions. The tech giant has reportedly acquired Emotient, a San Diego-based company that uses artificial technology to detect emotion from facial expressions, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51187,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions\/51187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}