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Mini-VowsCredit…Ann KristShortly before Ann Klein left her home in Oakland, Calif., to meet Krist Roginski for a first date at an Italian restaurant in Menlo Park, Calif., she began considering her mode of transportation.“I decided to drive, mostly because I was wearing a dress,” said Ms. Klein, 56, the chief product officer at Tact.ai, a…

Image: mashable composite, images by okcupid By Anna Iovine2020-09-01 12:00:00 UTC If I’m perusing a dating app and someone mentions being apolitical, or not caring about politics, I grimace. Being apolitical? In this (ravaged) economy (and global pandemic and time of social unrest)? I’m not alone in this, according to data found by OkCupid. Over…

Mini-VowsCredit…Allison CampbellBy the time the singer and songwriter Alexi Paraschos married Chelsea Holmes in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square on July 26, he was feeling pretty good about the odds of avoiding the wedding-in-a-pandemic blues.Credit belongs to a musical project he assigned himself weeks before the couple decided to make good on a marriage certificate due to…

Preface and motivationHere at OkCupid, we’re pretty big fans of using GraphQL. When it comes to fetching data on any of our client platforms, the abstraction that the query language provides grants the flexibility for us to fetch precisely the data that we need in each situation.At the end of the day, GraphQL really is…

Image: Tesla Dating By Anna Iovine2020-08-20 20:19:19 UTC If you own a Tesla and want a partner to raise a little X Æ A-12 of your own one day, you’re in luck: Tesla Dating is an up-and-coming dating site just for you. With the tagline “Because You Can’t Spell LOVE Without EV [electric vehicle],” one…

FILE PHOTO: The dating app Tinder is shown on an Apple iPhone in this photo illustration taken February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Illustration/File Photo(Reuters) – Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) forecast current-quarter sales above Wall Street expectations after beating quarterly estimates, as demand for its online dating app Tinder rebounded during the coronavirus lockdowns. Tinder added about…

FILE PHOTO: The dating app Tinder is shown on an Apple iPhone in this photo illustration taken February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Illustration/File Photo(Reuters) – Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) forecast current-quarter sales above Wall Street expectations after beating quarterly estimates, as demand for its online dating app Tinder rebounded during the coronavirus lockdowns. Tinder added about…

Aug 4 (Reuters) – Match Group Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday and forecast current-quarter sales above expectations as its online dating app Tinder attracted more users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions to stop the spread of the outbreak have limited face-to-face meetings, prompting more people to use dating apps as…

This post is a follow-up to the intro post about The Stable Marriage Problem. Check out the previous post to understand the problem/solution because this post examines its implications, particularly in the modern dating world.Modern TimesA fascinating consequence of the internet is how much closer it has brought the problem of finding your soulmate, as…

Image: okcupid, composite by mashable By Anna Iovine2020-07-06 12:00:00 UTC In 2018, OkCupid rolled out a feature for users who identified as any gender other than a man or woman to choose their pronouns. Now, the dating app is opening that feature up to every user regardless of their gender. They’re doing this in the…