CHICAGO – The 1980s brought us video dating. In the 90s, we were dialing up to find love with the emergence of online dating. Then there were hookup apps like Tinder that are connecting people with ...

Move over, Bumble. Take a hike, Tinder. Dating apps are so 2020. There’s something new for the amorously inclined. Finding romance has always been a matter of luck, good timing and — let’s be honest ...

Rafayel's girlfriends went all out to celebrate their lover's birthday, renting malls across China for parties, decorating high-speed trains with his photos, and even staging a dazzling drone show.

We all know that teenagers text—a lot. But as the mother of a teenager, I am sometimes shocked by how much a lot can be, and more to the point, the impact that all this texting, virtual relating, is ...

When I first came across a “virtual lover” service on e-commerce site Taobao, China’s version of Amazon, I thought it was hype. For an average of 20 yuan ($3) per day, it claimed you could hire a ...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a sanitized, hypercapitalist metaverse will likely never be as compelling or idiosyncratic as VRChat, the virtual reality community that's been home to anime fans, Furries ...

How an Ikea wedding uses technology to bring everyone together. IKEA is now offering a virtual wedding service. IKEA Sverige/YouTube — -- Furniture, kitchen utensils, Swedish meatballs and now ...

It’s Valentine’s Day, otherwise known as the one day per year when it’s socially acceptable to complain about the loneliness of human existence. Single-player narrative games seem like the perfect ...

Some Japanese men are wooing girlfriends who don’t exist. While they can only interact with their partner through a pre-written script, these virtual beauties — Rinko, Manaka or Nene — offer a kind of ...

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