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" Our iPhones know more about us than most of our closest friends do\u00A0- they see the drunk messages we send to our contact &amp;#039;Do\u00A0Not Call&amp;#039;\u00A0at 2am, they know exactly\u00A0how many steps we walk a day and how many selfies we actually take before we get our new profile picture. Well soon our iPhones might be\u00A0better at reading our moods than we are.\u00A0 According to The Wall Street Journal Apple has acquired facial recognition startup Emotient, which scans\u00A0your expression to read\u00A0your mood. This was initially developed\u00A0to see\u00A0reactions\u00A0to adverts and products. On their website it says &amp;quot;Emotient is the leader in emotion detection and sentiment analysis based on facial expressions.\u00A0The company is at the vanguard of a new wave of emotion analysis that will lead to a quantum leap in customer understanding and emotion-aware computing.&amp;quot; Soon Apple will be able to know just how happy you are when you see things like Leo DiCaprio&amp;#039;s awkward fist\u00A0bump. And just how sad you are when it flashes\u00A0&amp;#039;low battery&amp;#039; or you smash your iPhone screen (AGAIN).\u00A0 Apple haven&amp;#039;t revealed what they will do with this magic\u00A0face-scanning/ mind-reading\u00A0technology. A spokesperson said that Apple &amp;quot;buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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