A person opens an app, fills out a profile, and waits. Somewhere in a server farm, code runs through millions of data points. It compares answers to questions, analyzes swiping patterns, and weighs ...

A day after New Year, the holiday aisle at drug stores gets a makeover: obnoxiously oversized bears and heart-shaped chocolate boxes under painfully bright fluorescent light; it is the last-minute ...

When Serena Smith rejoined dating apps after a break-up, she got vanishingly few matches — that is, until she changed her race to ‘white’ When my long-term relationship came to an end last year, I was ...

Christian singles aren’t going to church to find life partners. They’re swiping on the apps. The first time Alex Entz saw his future wife, she was behind a paywall. The popular dating app Hinge had ...

Contra-dating is receiving more and more attention as a bewildering dating trend, which aims to change the repetitive romantic patterns that are influenced by the algorithms of dating apps. The point ...

A mobile phone with the Hinge dating app logo on its screen, in Athens, Greece, on 31 January 2024. Photo by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Recent studies show what many daters already ...