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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A student-created matchmaking algorithm has taken Stanford University by storm, transforming campus social life as thousands of students eagerly await their weekly matches. Date Drop, a platform ...

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 ...