Based on some of the tech demos we've seen and earlier rumors, Intel's plans could include using facial recognition to personalize the experience for (and target advertising towards) different viewers, and offering smaller, cheaper bundles of channels than traditional providers.
Nuance Communications shares are trading sharply higher Monday morning on speculation that the speech recognition technology company could be an acquisition targetfor Apple.
Because the transforming and the filtering are done optically, this mechanism for pattern recognition is fast, allowing an image to be tested for the presence of a target in a single step.