Microsoft's new iPhone camera app has some weird tricks for the Snapchat generation

Microsoft released its own Selfie app for the iPhone more than a year ago, and now it’s experimenting with another iOS camera app. Sprinkles, released curiously on April Fools’ Day and spotted by TechCrunch, is the latest experimental app from Microsoft. It’s exclusively available on the iOS App Store, and it’s designed to automatically add stickers, emoji, or captions to photographs.

I’ve tested the app out briefly, and at 33 years of age it’s definitely not designed for me, but it has some interesting features powering it. Microsoft is using its machine learning to generate captions, and match your age or celebrity lookalikes as suggested “filters” for a photo. Microsoft has obviously tried to guess people’s age before, but this time...

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