Amazon is developing an emotion-sensing wearable

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The Alexa-powered hardware would offer suggestions to users on how they can better interact with people around them

Amazon is reportedly working on an Alexa-powered device that will be able to perceive human emotions through voice. Citing an unnamed source and internal documents, Bloomberg reported that this ...

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