Google Purchases Riya for $40 Mil

With Riya's software Google uses face recognition technology to identify people in photos. The system can also recognize text such as street signs.

Why should you care? What if you wanted to do a search on not a word, or a topic, but on someone. You can google someone and get pictures of what they did yesterday, where they went. Where your car is parked. These are crazy times.

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