insert your own amount of sarcasm Who would have thought that meeting someone in real life is better than on an app?
Tinder date tried to kill her - April 5th, Hour 4
Hadlie Monroe’s online match turned a romantic picnic into a fight for her life. She shares her chilling survival story. Plus, ChatGPT’s latest image-generation tool, and how AI can help you land your next job.
Swipe right on surveillance: Apparently, anyone can upload your face in a special app and find your Tinder dating profile, past locations included. 404 Media confirmed the viral TikToks are real (and paid). These apps are sold as “relationship tools,” but feel more like CSI: Breakup Edition.
48,000
That’s how many likes Tinder’s “most swiped right man” racked up without finding “the one.” Despite spending nine years and countless hours on the app (earning him the title “Mr. Tinder”), Stefan-Pierre Tomlin found love the old-fashioned way, meeting his girlfriend during a night out. She had no clue he was Mr. Tinder until she Googled him.
💔 Swindler swiped: Shimon Hayut, infamous as the “Tinder Swindler,” is back in jail. The con man from Netflix’s 2022 doc, was arrested in Georgia after allegedly scamming a Berlin woman out of $52K. Netflix might want to go ahead and greenlight Season 2.
🤖 Clickbait’s best friend is a fool: Be careful what you believe on the Motley Fool site. Roadzen’s shares nosedived 10% after Motley Fool’s “friendly Foolish AI,” JesterAI, hallucinated a massive 50% earnings miss in an article. Other sites reposted their AI-written article. “Friendly Foolish AI” sounds like a Tinder bio and a lawsuit waiting.
Show me your face: Tinder’s rolling out a mandatory facial recognition login, creatively named “Face Check.” It’s trying to root out bots, catfishers and the psycho 53-year-old pretending to be a 27-year-old trust fund baby. Will it work? Nah.
37 out of 50
That’s how many top news sites saw traffic drop after Google’s AI took the wheel. Despite wild headlines covering assassination attempts, election chaos and tariff wars, users stayed on the search page. Why? Google’s Gemini bot summarizes the news, grabs the eyeballs and leaves publishers ghosted like a bad Tinder date.
💰 Get paid to scroll: Yupp is a new chatbot site that pays users up to $50/month to rate AI responses, basically Tinder for bots but less romantic and more profitable. Every choice trains the AI, and every scratch card brings you closer to … $1. Maybe. It’s fun, weird and just useful enough to feel like work.
💔 Tinder swindler alert: A Portland woman lost over $40,000 after falling for a scammer she met on the app. They talked for a week before he asked for money, saying he had no family to help, sealing the con with a fake photo of himself in a hospital bed. Tinder’s basically a financial thriller with worse dialogue than a Lifetime movie.
November 9th, 2024
China’s hacks on AT&T and Verizon? Worse than we thought — hackers may have call logs and texts from everyday Americans. Plus, ‘designer babies,’ the world’s biggest data broker, and a caller’s Tinder date from hell that nearly turned deadly.
❤️ Let the drama begin: The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack drops July 25 for $40, and it’s a full-on Tinder experience. Sims can use the Cupid’s Corner app to snap selfies, create a profile and set partner preferences. Matches spark chats, and your Sims can date as many partners as you’d like. Def not one for the kiddos.
Tinder lets your friends and fam play matchmaker
Having a hard time dating online? Tinder’s newest feature gives your loved ones the reins. That’s not all — I answer your burning tech questions in a new Q&A segment!
Leave these 5 things out of your Tinder profile
Why aren’t you getting good matches? I have a possible answer, in 60 seconds.
People turn to hookup apps without benefits
Some dating apps are notorious for being used solely for hookups. (Think Tinder, Bumble and Hinge.) But get this. Many young people, from Gen Z to millennials, are using these so-called hookup apps in entirely new ways.