Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp. Reading time 12 minutes Last year, a friend came to me with a ...

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 ...

In her 2012 book, Addiction by Design, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll lays out the different technological mechanisms casinos employ to keep people gambling. From the architecture of buildings and ...

Once upon a swipe, finding love—or something like it—on dating apps was, if not easy, at least attainable. But now, more than 10 years after Tinder normalized online dating, the virtual spark seems to ...