In the Summer of 2012, Chris McKinlay was finishing his maths dissertation at the University of California in Los Angeles. It meant a lot of late nights as he ran complex calculations through a ...

In 1966, the BBC's Tomorrow's World visited a party in New York organised by the electronic dating service Tact, or Technical Automated Compatibility Testing. Around 2,000 singles were invited to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business." This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, ...

If the answer is Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton, what the hell was the question? Europe’s choices for its new “president” and “foreign minister” are like the result of some sort of computer-dating ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Online dating is not as new as I thought it was. Finkel et al. (2012) say that as early as 1959 a class of Stanford math students created a final project called “Happy Families Planning Services.” ...

Online dating used to be a bit, well, embarrassing. Browsing love-match sites was something to be done late at night, at home, when no one could see. You had to watch out for people posting fake ...

Online dating used to come with a certain amount of stigma, but not anymore. One in ten Americans has used a dating site. Even more impressive, 23 percent of those people have met a spouse or ...