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From AI-powered matchmaking to advanced search filters, dating apps in 2026 are redefining how singles connect. Algorithms now learn from user behavior, preferences, and even post-date feedback to ...

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 ...

Modern dating feels remarkably like a second job. For many successful professionals, seeking romance has become a tedious ...

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 ...

Tired of the apps, many daters are taking matters into their own hands — and they’re getting creative with it It was Wednesday when one of 27-year-old Siren Dahlsveen’s friends texted their group chat ...

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 ...

Shalini Kantayya explores the ways in which dating apps exploit users' desire for connection and hook them into cycles of ...

Depending on your age and relationship status, your phone might be littered with dating apps like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble. You might assume online dating goes back to the 2000s, at the earliest. But ...

A few years back, Nathanael Fletcher, a 29-year-old software engineer living in Springfield, Missouri, hit it off with someone on a dating app. The pair had been going out for a little while when she ...

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 ...