Image: Amazon. Amazon is once again jumping into the online mapping fray with a new Maps API for Android developers building apps for the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets.

Programmers inspired by Google Instant have built their own predictive search applications for YouTube, Google Maps and Google Images. Their efforts could land them jobs at Google, Facebook or ...

The API can also detect facial features, allowing it to find images that display certain emotions. This means Google's cloud platform can technically detect fear just as well as it can identify a ...