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Bumble will verify profiles by asking users to take selfies
Bumble, a dating service that you can also use to find new BFFs, has launched an unorthodox verification process specifically designed to prevent catfishing. It won't just ask you to click a link sent via email or to confirm your identity through a phone call -- no, the service will ask you to take selfies to prove you're not using somebody else's photos. If you choose to go through the process, Bumble will send you one of the 100 random photo poses it has on file. You'll then have to take a selfie copying that particular pose and send it in. Bumble says it can hand out verification badges within just a few minutes, even though real employees will authenticate and take a look at every single picture people send.
"Love Detector" service now available for mobile matchmaking
We're not quite sure that the type of person who uses Nemesysco Entertainment's home or PocketPC (pictured) versions of the "Love Detector" service is out and about all that much, but the Israeli company has nonetheless released a mobile alternative that lets you discover your crush's innermost feelings while chatting on your cellphone. Already "wildy popular" in Israel, "Love Detector" allows you to dial a certain number before calling your intended target sweetie so that the company's server (and no snickering employees, we're certain) can eavesdrop on the coversation and calculate (with deadly accuracy, we're certain) four key parameters that supposedly determine your chances of mating. After the call is over (or the other person hangs up on you), the server delivers a text message to your phone that helpfully breaks the complicated analysis down into plain English, and even more helpfully, offers advice on how to proceed ("Love is detected! Proceed with caution!" or "Never call this person again, you perv."). Besides Israel, the precision service is unfortunately (?) only available in Turkey, Hungary, and the UK for now, but we're sure that once our US readers begin deluging Nemesysco with pleading emails, they'll have a version for the States in no time.[Via Shiny Shiny and Gizmos for Geeks]
