Microsoft's newest video tech can ID emotions, and see into your soul

What if you could understand everything about a video without ever having to watch it?

That may sound contradictory, but Microsoft has created a tool that can analyze videos and make their contents searchable, potentially saving you the trouble of watching the footage yourself.

Called Video Indexer, the software, which debuted onstage at Microsoft's Build developers conference, allows developers and publishers to quickly analyze huge amounts of video in surprisingly precise detail.

"The Video Indexer essentially allows a developer, or a publisher to upload a video... and then it will return a bunch of interesting insights about the video," Microsoft's Principal Product Manager for Cognitive Services, Irving Kwong explained to me the night before build in a preview briefing. Read more...