But the days of deliberating whether or not to include your friends, dogs, or selfies in your dating app profile could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Tinder. The dating app has released a new tool called'Photo Selector', which uses AI to choose the best photos for your dating profile. 'By alleviating the burden of photo selection, Photo Selector empowers users to focus more on making meaningful connections rather than spending excessive time on photo selection,' Tinder explained. 'This AI innovation promises to inject more spontaneity into the online dating experience.' Tinder has released a new tool called'Photo Selector', which uses AI to choose the best photos for your dating profile To use the tool, open the Tinder app and select'Add media' on your profile. First, you'll be prompted to upload a photo of yourself, or take a selfie.

Tinder is trying to end the long-festering nightmare of having to actually look at yourself long enough to choose profile pictures. The new Photo Selector feature uses AI to pore through pictures to pick the ones most likely to get that much-coveted right swipe. The tool has been in a testing phase since August of last year and it's finally ready for prime time. Photo Selector works by automatically browsing through a smartphone's entire camera roll and using AI algorithms to pick the, well, hottest ones. "With Photo Selector, Tinder offers a digital companion that curates a diverse selection of photos from users' camera roll optimized to help users find a match," the company wrote in a press release.

There is a commercial following me around the internet. In the ad, a happy father is playing with his son on the beach while Mom is documenting it all on her brand-new Google Pixel 8 phone. Dad lifts the boy and gently tosses him a foot or so into the air. In the next frame, Mom clicks a button on her phone labeled "Magic Editor," which allows her to isolate the boy on her screen and effortlessly drag him higher into the air and farther from Dad's outstretched arms. With another tap, she adds contrast to the washed-out sky in the background, making the clouds pop.

If someone told me, a couple of weeks prior, that I would be taking pictures of everything that crossed my path, I would have laughed in their face. But there I was, sitting on the sidewalk, looking to capture the perfect shot that would allow me to learn a little more about the world I am a part of: the expression of the guide dog who is always by my side; the bustle of a busy street full of buildings, cars, and signs; the box of desserts I just bought, wondering whether it looked appetizing enough to bring to a family dinner. I can't see these things, which are so easy to take for granted, with my own eyes. But A.I. has now brought me as close to being able to do so as I'll probably ever be. I was born totally blind, and my visual world has always been determined by what well-meaning people can tell me about my surroundings. To appreciate all the details of a room or to read a menu in a restaurant, I was dependent on someone else.

Last week, Apple announced two backdoors in the US into the encryption that protects its devices. One will monitor iMessages: if any photos sent by or to under-13s seem to contain nudity, the user may be challenged and their parents may be informed. The second will see Apple scan all the images on a phone's camera roll and if they're similar to known sex-abuse images flag them as suspect. If enough suspect images are backed up to an iCloud account, they'll be decrypted and inspected. If Apple thinks they're illegal, the user will be reported to the relevant authorities. Action on the circulation of child sexual abuse imagery is long overdue.

Apple has announced a new feature called Live Text, which will digitize the text in all your photos. This unlocks a slew of handy functions, from turning handwritten notes into emails and messages to searching your camera roll for receipts or recipes you've photographed. This is certainly not a new feature for smartphones, and we've seen companies like Samsung and Google offer similar tools in the past. But Apple's implementation does look typically smooth. With Live Text, for example, you can tap on the text in any photo in your camera roll or viewfinder and immediately take action from it.

WhatsApp, the popular messaging apps acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, has been adding new features on a regular basis. As of January 2018, WhatsApp was hitting 1.5 billion monthly users who are sending 60 billion messages per day. While WhatsApp seems like a basic and simple instant message application, it has a number of interesting and sophisticated features. WhatsApp allows you to back up your chat conversations and media using a cloud storage service so that you can restore the content again when you switch devices. You can set this up so it backs up automatically every day, every week or every month. This feature can be found under Settings Chats Chat Backup Auto Backup. WhatsApp backs up with iCloud on iOS and Google Drive on Android.

Of the many new features in Apple's iOS 11--which hit your iPhone a few weeks ago--a tool called Core ML stands out. It gives developers an easy way to implement pre-trained machine learning algorithms, so apps can instantly tailor their offerings to a specific person's preferences. With this advance comes a lot of personal data crunching, though, and some security researchers worry that Core ML could cough up more information than you might expect--to apps that you'd rather not have it. Core ML boosts tasks like image and facial recognition, natural language processing, and object detection, and supports a lot of buzzy machine learning tools like neural networks and decision trees. And as with all iOS apps, those using Core ML ask user permission to access data streams like your microphone or calendar.

After Celebgate and the Fappening, a new iOS app called Nude is trying to protect iOS users' racy photos from another iCloud leak. The app scans a user's camera roll and pinpoints which photos, videos or documents include explicit content. After the AI scan, the images are locked into the app and erased to avoid hackers from getting their hands on the images. Jessica Chiu, Y.C. Chen and Edgar Khanzandian created the Nude app, which was released Oct. 4. "The app itself is very simple and intuitive to use," Chiu told International Business Times. "Once our proprietary AI technology scans through your camera roll and detects sensitive material, they are then imported into the app, deleted from your camera roll, and erased from iCloud."

Twitter was scheduled to shut down the video-looping app and replace it with Vine Camera. Users will still be able to record their six-second video clips, but they will only be able to upload those videos to Twitter and/or save them to their camera rolls. In other words, although you can still post Vines to Twitter, the stand-alone Vine feed will cease to be. Vine users can still download their favorite videos to their cameras before Vine goes away for good. If you want to save the videos to your computer, go to the Vine website.