Say cheers to weirdos

29 June 2016 - 09:06

By NIVASHNI NAIR

Are you too polite to tell a dating chat-site weirdo to take a hike?A new app is taking the brush-off to a new level with its ability to detect texts from creeps that you don't want to chat to.US-based Ad Hoc Labs came up with the "Ghostbot" to detect incoming texts from a person you're hoping not to speak to.

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