Pride month is here. A time when the LGBT+ community can come together and celebrate love and acceptance. There are so many ways to recognise Pride month, from supporting LGBT+ people in your life to donating to LGBT+ charities and signing petitions and pressuring governments in queerphobic countries to encourage them to change laws and …
If you are young enough you might not even remember a time before dating apps existed. It feels almost quaint, really. But for thousands of years, people were meeting and mating without the assistance of Bumble or Tinder, when Hinge was just the sparkle in an innovator’s eye. For those of you who can’t imagine …
We live in a world full of digitized records. At some point, they’re inescapable: your bank account and hospital visits are digitized and any accounts or subscriptions will ask for personal data and then store that in a secure place online. Unfortunately, ‘secure’ doesn’t always mean reliable. For example, Gary McKinnon hacked into US military …
Quarantine has radically changed the way we communicate, with a lot of people fully switching to doing it online. To some it seemed a depressing time of stagnation with virtual dates. To others, it was a welcome exhalation from the conventional framework and the beginning of creativity. During this period, everyone went through several stages …
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed virtually everything about society. As the end of the pandemic appears to be on the horizon, many people are wanting to get back to normal in some form or fashion. Dating apps are helping the process of attaining normality with campaigns to help promote vaccinations. The governments of both …
Imagine paying $1000 a month for something. For most of us, that’s quite a payment plan, something that can be compared with some car payments or even mortgages. A quick search will show you that it’s possible to find a place to live in most US cities for $1000 a month (granted, it won’t be …
Bumble, which operates its popular dating app by the same name as well as dating app Badoo, had its initial public offering earlier this year to great fanfare. Recently, it released its first quarter financial results. While the results were positive, the company’s stock saw a significant dip in price as investors remained cautious of …
Innovation is always exciting. It’s how we got the magical things that make our modern lives great, with flushing toilets and fast cars. But every now and then we get a new creation that might well be an original idea, but doesn’t really seem like it will advance civilization, or even someone’s life, in any …
The way we get on in years shouldn’t impact our ability to show compassion, especially not in the way of romance. When you’re in your 40s and you don’t know if you have the same energy to fall in love like you used to – whether you’re looking for a brand new love or starting …
Dating sites are the way that a lot of people meet now, this is a fact. For a huge percentage of the population, unless you happen to strike up a conversation with a stranger or get set up by a mutual friend, most of the people you meet will likely come from the online sphere. …