Will embracing technology make us closer than ever? From niche apps to virtual reality and wearables, even traditional matchmaking has found a new reliance on tech.
There is nothing new about the elusiveness of love. For millennia, people have written stories, sonnets and songs about the fundamental struggle of finding the perfect mate. Today, technology companies ...
Long before online dating and test-tube babies existed, Hollywood soothsayers were busy imagining how technologies of the future might change relationships. Here are some cinematic predictions — and ...
The movie “Demolition Man” depicted a future in which lovers no longer had physical sex but instead donned headgear that generated a touchless virtual reality encounter. While that “ vir-sex ” ...
When Crystal Mo-Wong, an eighth-grade teacher in Fullerton (Orange County), bought a Fitbit for husband Kevin, she didn’t know it would prompt a nightly contest over who could log more steps. “We ...
With websites and apps, technology allows singles to search for matches down to the most specific criteria. Daters can look for people who are tall (Tall Single), little people (Little People Meet), ...
Nearly three years before Tinder came on the scene, Grindr was doing the same thing for gay and bisexual men: an app you turned on to see who might turn you on. Grindr, which now boasts more than 2.4 ...
When it came to marriage, Avneet Randhawa’s parents had a checklist for her future match. They wanted her to end up with someone who was Indian — Punjabi, to be exact. He also needed to speak the ...
Two people sit in the middle of a bustling San Francisco coffee shop. They don’t know each other, though they’re seated at the same table. Each is glued to a smartphone, scrolling through selfies and ...
For someone like Andrea Vuturo, an extrovert by nature, nothing is more frustrating than the mindless messaging back and forth on dating apps. The algorithms match people for a reason, she said, so ...
