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world\u2019s second-largest tech company just acquired a
military-linked Israeli startup that uses \u201cfacial skin
micromovements\u201d to anticipate what users will say before they
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<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;"><strong>The
world\u2019s second-largest tech company just
acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that
uses \u201cfacial skin micromovements\u201d to anticipate
what users will say before they speak.</strong></h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>This
article was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4589cd7e-4368-4af7-b6e8-f63a285ecace?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">originally published</a><span>
by ĄDo Not Panic!</span></em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Tech
giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for
a \u201cpre-speech\u201d tech company whose employees helped
Israel commit genocide in Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid
this money for a company that doesn\u2019t have a
product, doesn\u2019t have any revenues and whose
website is a single page containing 15 words.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
company, Q.ai, is developing sensors which map the
imperceptible movements of a human face to
determine the words someone is thinking before
they\u2019re spoken. They call it \u201csilent speech,\u201d or
\u201cpre-speech\u201d \u2014 and it appears to be exactly as
sinister as it sounds.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Q.ai
was founded by Aviad Maizels, Avi Barliya and
Yonatan Wexler, all of whom honed their skills
by testing technologies of apartheid on
Palestinians. Maizels is a former commander of
Unit 81, the IDF division which builds Israel\u2019s
offensive cyber weapons. Barliya, according to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/3c1eda0a-9eac-4167-aaae-3adec6f7c37b?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">his LinkedIn</a><span>,
was an intelligence officer in the Israeli air
force, while Wexler is a former Unit 8200 agent.</span></p>
<h4 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.125em;"><strong>Apple\u2019s
genocide intake</strong></h4>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/af482adb-27a7-436a-a228-206677ca61a9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
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moz-do-not-send="true">In a blog post</a><span>
announcing the deal, Tom Hulme, an executive at
Google Ventures, one of the company\u2019s early
investors, revealed that 30% of Q.ai\u2019s more than
100 staff were called up to participate in the
genocide of Gaza.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
admission means dozens of people implicated in
genocidal acts who served under the political
command of Yoav Gallant, an ICC indicted war
criminal, are now Apple employees.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>It
should be a huge scandal. The biggest company in
the US, one of the world\u2019s most recognizable
names, has folded into its staff dozens of
people who served in a military during the
period it committed genocide, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e41032b5-7ef9-4131-ba7d-4068f9a7b148?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
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of the world\u2019s most acclaimed rights experts.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>But
every single mainstream article which covered
news of the deal, from </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5990d12e-7538-40b9-a138-d4ac5f95cf57?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Reuters</a><span> to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/951b1327-1006-4bd8-acb5-c8d79c5992e4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">FT</a><span>, ignored
this fact. Mainstream coverage also ignored a
number of other extremely cogent elements to the
story, including the nature of the deal and the
technology itself.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>Apple
has paid two billion dollars for something that
barely appears to exist.</strong></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Q.ai\u2019s</span><strong>
</strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/89a14a85-4d16-4f7f-b738-2a02255eadff?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">website</a><span>
consists of just 15 words. To find out exactly
what the company does you have to look beyond
the press releases to the patents Q.ai and its
founders have filed.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">And
these patents read like plot lines from the
bleakest dystopian futures.</p>
<h4 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.125em;"><strong>Sensing
silent speech</strong></h4>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/578c338a-43e7-4bfb-ab9b-748a29f2e18b?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">One filing</a><span>
details technology capable of \u201cdetermining an
emotional state of an individual based on facial
skin micromovements.\u201d The same filing says the
technology could be used \u201cto identify a user
based on heart-rate and breathing-rate.\u201d </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/baddc78e-36ef-45dc-945f-e15266695086?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Another filing</a><span>
says Q.ai\u2019s software \u201csynthesizes speech in
response to words articulated silently by the
test subject.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Q.ai\u2019s
technology centers around \u201csilent speech.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is the idea that before we vocalize words and move
our mouths to emit sounds, our brain has already
sent signals to muscles in our throat and face
determining what we\u2019re going to say. Q.ai claims
to have invented infrared sensors that can pick up
these pre-speech micro-movements.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/788370e9-edeb-4b05-a542-e061c7cabfc9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">One filing</a><span>
talks about a \u201csensing device configured to fit
an ear of a user, with an optical sensing head
which senses light reflected from the face and
outputs a signal in response. Processing
circuitry processes the signal to generate a
speech output.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Tech
bloggers have suggested Apple has bought the
company to enable non-verbal control of an iPhone
and other devices via its airpod earphones or
smart glasses. An annotated diagram included with
the patent shows a person wearing glasses and an
earpiece integrated with the technology.</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Indeed,
Apple is no stranger to adopting the technologies
of Israeli apartheid, and in fact the company is
extremely familiar with Maizels himself.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
2013, Apple bought Maizels\u2019s first company,
PrimeSense, a developer of 3D sensing technology.
PrimeSense technology went on to become the
foundation for Apple\u2019s Face ID system on its newer
iPhone and iPad models.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Nonetheless,
two billion dollars for a non-existent technology
and a three-year old company, is unprecedented.
What isn\u2019t unprecedented, however, is a US tech
giant overpaying for an Israeli company.</p>
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style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.125em;"><strong>Overpriced
Israeli tech</strong></h4>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Last
year, Google bought Israeli cybersecurity Wiz
for $32 billion, which, at 64 times Wiz\u2019s annual
sales, was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/60391656-3c63-4ed7-8f52-8d2a371a43d2?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">widely seen as an
inflated</a><span> price and far in excess of
the sales-to-valuation ratio for similar
companies.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
this price, however, Israel received a huge $5
billion tax windfall. At the time, Zionists crowed
it would help the country buy more warplanes and
missiles to commit genocide.</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
deal for Q.ai, while a lot smaller, will still
generate significant tax income for Israel\u2019s
struggling economy.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">And
Israel is critical to Apple.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
company has </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8e0efd14-1b03-49ca-80ad-1098b14408a9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">a large R&D campus</a><span>
in the country, its second-biggest outside the
US, into which large numbers of Unit 8200 and
Unit 81 graduates are funneled. Apple CEO Tim
Cook is a devoted Zionist, has visited Israel on
numerous occasions, and in 2018 </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7b3868ea-c9ea-415f-9065-f1c05f7ab346?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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from Zionist lobby group the ADL for his efforts
to censor anti-Israel speech. Apple has made
good on that promise over the last two years, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f0474c6a-c4fa-4dc6-b53d-71b055a81420?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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for expressing pro-Palestine, anti-genocide
views. Cook has never spoken about Gaza.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
price for a ghost company with a few patents,
then, looks as much about politics as it does
about technology.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>That\u2019s
not to say Q.ai\u2019s technology </span><em>won\u2019t </em><span>be
commercialized for consumer applications. It
probably will be. And if the tech is realized,
the implications for privacy and data collection
are frightening.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
are the security state and military applications.</p>
<h4 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.125em;"><strong>A
pre-crime future</strong></h4>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
few days after the Q.ai deal, the head of
neurotechnology at Israel\u2019s directorate of
defense research and development, the country\u2019s
equivalent to the US\u2019s DARPA program, gave her </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1ace246c-daf5-4ee2-936e-28b28220a248?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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to Israeli media. In the interview she
referenced Q.ai and said the Israeli military is
working on similar technology. The US has a
DARPA project known as </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/21790fa6-9642-4f35-a43d-35670d0f62fd?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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which is also working to develop pre-speech
sensing and non-verbal control technologies.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Once
the technology is developed, and pre-speech
established as a legitimate biological human
function, how far behind will pre-crime be?</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Given
the frenzied efforts we\u2019ve seen to shut down and
criminalize criticism of Israel under the guise of
antisemitism, one can easily imagine a future of
pre-speech sensing technology being rolled out to
identify would-be critics of Israel. Or the US. Or
Europe. Or imperialism in general.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">One
can imagine it now: \u201cBased on our silent speech
detector we have determined you were going to say
something hateful or antisemitic or un-American
and are therefore under arrest.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
most dystopian technologies continue to flow out
of Israel. And they continue to flow because
Israel is empowered by the US and Europe to
maintain a system of apartheid built upon invasive
and authoritarian technologies of control.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
is therefore no surprise that the creators of Q.ai
are veterans of Israel\u2019s genocidal military
security state, or that the largest company in the
US sees these technologies as essential to its AI
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