Dating app helps you find people who look like your favorite celebrity

Dating apps have their own gimmicks to have you choose them over the many others out there. A UK-based dating app has a funny/creepy new feature, depending on who you ask. Badoo now has a “lookalike” feature, which basically lets you search for someone based on who they resemble. If you can’t date Tom Hiddleston, who says that you can’t date someone who looks like him? The app will let you upload the photo of whomever you want and it uses image recognition technology to find you similar-looking faces. Badoo’s tech identifies 160 facial features like eyebrows, hair color, chin size, etc. and takes those details and assigns a unique number of combinations to each face. It’ll then find you the best matches among the millions of images on the app. Badoo also comes preloaded with some recognizable faces, like Jake Gyllenhaal. And since you can link your Facebook account, you can look for people from your own life.

Source: Fast Company

Tips for keeping safe on dating apps

Valentine’s is just around the corner and if you’ve turned online to find a date, you best keep your guard up. You don’t just have to worry about physical safety when it comes to dating apps. You have to be wary about your personal data, too. According to a recent IBM study, over 60 percent of popular dating apps are potentially vulnerable to different cyberattacks. These can be used to download malware, track your movements via GPS, get your credit card number stolen, etc.

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Former Tinder co-founder starts up new dating app

After leaving Tinder and filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against her colleagues, the company’s co-founder Whitney Wolfe is looking to get back in the dating app game. Wolfe has partnered with Tinder alumni Chris Gulczynski and Sarah Mick to create a similar swipe-based dating app called Bumble. The site’s Facebook page is up but there aren’t any details yet on what differentiates this social discovery app. One sure thing is they’ve been taking subtle digs against Tinder by saying their app isn’t filled with “creepy guys and cheesy pick-up lines” and that they promote a “safe and respectful community.” The app will match based on “relevant signals” unlike other “more shallow apps.” Ouch. Time will only be able to tell if Wolfe’s attempt at the dating app game will succeed.

Source: Engadget