A few weeks ago, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that his company would fund an outside research team, called Bluesky, to develop an “open and decentralized standard for social media.” What does that mean, exactly? The best analogy might be email: in Gmail, for example, you aren’t limited to only sending email to other Gmail users; but because of the “Simple Mail Transport Protocol,” email works regardless of your client, and companies like Superhuman can build enhancements on top of email. So what if you didn’t need a Twitter account to tweet?
Month: December 2019
OPLIN 4Cast #677: Is emotion recognition technology a good idea?
Posted in 4cast, and facial recognition
We’ve certainly covered facial recognition in the 4Cast before, but a newer subset of that tech is causing some major waves. Now, technology can not only match a name and a face, but it can also (in theory) determine how the person with that face is feeling. Called “affect recognition,” but more commonly referred to as “emotion recognition,” it may be even more controversial than it’s broader cousin, facial recognition.
OPLIN 4Cast #676: Face it: they’re watching
Posted in 4cast, and facial recognition
I was stunned last week when it was announced that airport face recognition scans would soon include US citizens. The Department of Homeland Security quickly…
Twitter has been a solid player in the social media landscape for over a decade, but surprisingly little has changed since it first launched in…