Tuesday 17 May 2016
A new patent filed by Facebook earlier this month reveals that the company may be trying to make your face the new emoji. Using facial recognition technology, it appears Facebook wants to sort through your tagged photos to find faces that best match the emoji you meant to use. For example, if typing :) leads to the 😀 emoji, it may instead replace that with a photo of you smiling. If implemented, it will likely limit the compatible emoji to a select set of emotions easily detectable by the software (standard crying or angry emoji come to mind.) It would also encourage…
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