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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...