Apple acquires facial recognition company 'Polar Rose'
20/09/2010 |
Apple acquisition frenzy, relatively speaking, continues on unabated. According to a report from the Swedish site Mac1, Apple appears to have purchased Polar Rose, a tech company specializing in facial recognition technology.
The Malm-based company specializes in developing technology which makes facial recognition, not unlike what Apple already has and uses iPhoto for Mac OS X. Through sophisticated algorithms, manages the software of the Arctic Rose to recognize faces in images and the company...
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