Looking back, it’s a bit hard to believe that it’s been a year since I first started talking to Jesse Thomas ofJESS3. Facebook had just launched its Facebook Stories feature and Thomas’ companyhad been tappedfor the design of the sub-site on Facebook.com It was during this conversation, though, that I realized that JESS3 was onto something more than what I had seen before. We have a near-constant influx of infographics and data visualizations here at TNW but what we don’t always have are great stories behind them....

The pandemic has challenged and changed how most people date and hookup. “Monogamy is preferable at this time,” said Horacio Arruda, Quebec’s National Director of Public Health, during the height of the first wave. Government-imposed physical distancing measures, stay-at-home orders and other public health initiatives resulted in a shift toward online dating. This shift has increasedthe number of dating app usersandthe amount of time people spend on dating apps. Tinder says its users had 11 per cent more swipes and 42 per cent more matches last year, making2020 the app’s busiest year....

This past June,Foursquare, the NYC based LBS apphit 10 million usersin 2 years. While coverage of the announcement spread far and wide, we thought it only fair to draw your attention to deCarta’s MapSearch application, which hit 10 million users in four months. Intriguing to say the least… Unlike Foursquare, MapSearch is a white label application that deCarta tailors with market and handset specific content and features for different countries and OEMs....

How Deepfakes could help implant false memories in our minds It’s startlingly easy Background A team of researchers from universities in Germany and the UK today published pre-print research detailing a study in which they successfully implantedand removedfalse memories in test subjects. Per the team’spaper: Basically, it’s relatively easy to implant false memories. Getting rid of them is the hard part. The study was conducted on 52 subjects who agreed to allow the researchers to attempt to plant a false childhood memory in their minds over several sessions....

The newly launched Labelbox is now the #1 photo app in 25 countries,according to appannie. The app is exactly what it sounds like, it lets you creatively label and box (frame) your photos. The app is top 5 in 65 countries, and #26 in USA overall app charts. In fact, it’s ranked aboveInstagram,Picplzand even Skype. But in thephoto tweaking/filtering/sharing craze, have you even heard of it? How to use: Simply take or upload a photo....