Topic: dating apps
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How "Catch a Cheater" Apps Feed Our Worst Instincts
"Cheater catching" apps use facial recognition to scan dating platforms like Tinder, operating in a legal gray area and raising privacy concerns by accessing profiles without user consent. Privacy experts warn these tools enable invasive surveillance, often misidentify individuals—especially peop...
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Cerca Reveals How Gen Z Actually Dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Cerca is a dating app designed by Gen Z to foster meaningful connections by leveraging mutual friends and social networks, reducing the anxiety of meeting strangers online. The app limits users to four anonymous swipes per day to combat swiping fatigue and encourages thoughtful decisions, with pr...
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Personal AI Matchmaker App: Beyond Hinge and Bumble
AI dating apps like Three Day Rule aim to replace superficial swiping with deep personal profiling to foster genuine connections, using algorithms trained by human matchmakers to build nuanced user profiles. The app's process involves extensive, personal questioning and offers a premium subscript...
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Facebook Dating: Is Anyone Actually Using It?
Facebook Dating is often overlooked but has a substantial user base, with 21.5 million daily active users across 52 countries, and is gaining traction among younger audiences. The service is entirely free, providing full functionality without paywalls or in-app purchases, in contrast to competito...
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Forget AI Dating: Real-World Romance Is Back
There is a cultural shift away from digital dating tools toward valuing authentic, in-person connection, as the core human experience of romance resists algorithmic engineering. Dating platforms have heavily invested in AI features like coaching and chatbots to combat user fatigue, but this tech-...
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Tinder's AI Scans Your Photos to Find Better Matches
Tinder is piloting an AI tool called "Chemistry" that analyzes users' photo libraries to identify personality traits and interests, aiming to reduce swiping burnout by offering highly compatible matches. The feature requires explicit user consent for photo access and uses interactive prompts to g...
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AI Date Night: A New York City Experience
A growing number of people are turning to AI for companionship, with events like EVA AI's pop-up date night aiming to normalize these relationships. Research, such as a Kinsey Institute survey, shows this is a significant trend, finding that 16% of participants use AI as a romantic partner. While...
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26 Top Consumer & EdTech Startups from Disrupt Battlefield
TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 highlights innovative startups, with 20 finalists competing for a major prize and 180 others showcasing groundbreaking ideas across sectors like consumer tech and education. The featured companies address diverse needs, from accessibility (AccessibleGO) and he...
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Facebook Tests an AI Dating Assistant
Facebook Dating is launching an AI assistant to help users find more compatible matches by specifying partner criteria or improving their profiles, aiming for personalized suggestions over generic ones. The platform is introducing a weekly "surprise match" feature called Meet Cute to reduce swipe...
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Planet Hunting and India's Electric Scooter Revolution
The Trump administration's termination of thousands of federal health employees during the government shutdown is expected to severely impact disease surveillance at the CDC, prompting lawsuits from labor unions. Artificial intelligence is causing controversy with tools like OpenAI's Sora 2 video...
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Rodeo: The App for Making Plans With Friends
Rodeo is a new app that uses intelligent technology to streamline making plans with friends, aiming to transform scattered ideas into concrete events. The app simplifies planning by capturing inspiration from various sources, pulling in event details, and facilitating easy invites to reduce coord...
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