Nest security camera knows who's home with Google face tech

Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution home-security camera, offering a glimpse of a future in which increasingly intelligent, internet-connected computers can see and understand what's going on in people's homes. The Nest Cam IQ, unveiled Wednesday, will be Nest's first device to draw upon the same human-like skills that Google has been programming into its computers -- for instance, to identify people in images via its widely used photo app. Facebook deploys similar technology to automatically recognize and recommend tags of people in photos posted on its social network. Nest can tap into Google's expertise in artificial intelligence because both companies are owned by the same parent company, Alphabet Inc. With the new feature, you could program the camera to recognize a child, friend or neighbor, after which it will send you notifications about that person being in the home.