Hinge

Image: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock)Tinder isn’t the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous $500-a-month tier, Tinder Select, led to considerable backlash back in September, the company has recently been expanding the membership offering by inviting additional users to apply for it.This Giant Company Owns Almost Every Dating AppYes, there’s a whole application that you have to fill out. And you have to have an invite in order even to be eligible to do that. Tinder Select…

Hinge wants you to get off of its app and foster platonic relationships. The dating app giant is launching a $1 million social impact fund to tackle the loneliness epidemic that’s impacting its Gen Z users. Fiscally sponsored or 501(c)3 groups in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City can apply for grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 each to develop “fresh, free/low-cost, and recurring in-person connection opportunities” for young adults. “You could just tell people, ‘Go hang out, in person,’ but we know that doesn’t…

About a month into free agency, a de facto waiting game is underway — for both the Dodgers, and many other clubs around Major League Baseball.In what has been a quiet offseason around the league, the Dodgers have been no exception; yet to orchestrate much of a ripple, let alone any discernible splash.Instead, with the winter meetings approaching next week, the team appears to be waiting for this offseason’s two biggest dominos to fall first, anxious to learn their fate in the sweepstakes for Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu…

There has always been little more to swiping right or left on a person's Tinder profile than if you like how they look. Now, the dating app is finally introducing a range of features that provide a more rounded idea of people, such as profile prompts and basic info tags.Anyone who has used apps like fellow Match Group-owned Hinge or Bumble will likely find many of these updates familiar. Profile prompts, for example, are a long-standing feature on both, with Tinder users now able to share their responses to statements…

“I wasn’t able to go outside anywhere alone,” Ana says. “I had so much anxiety that when I went outside to do errands, I lost consciousness twice. That’s when I realized I was very sick.”Ana began working for LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr when she was in her early twenties, one of hundreds of Hondurans hired by US-headquartered outsourcing company PartnerHero to work on the account. Her team was based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city, where they handled tasks ranging from the mundane—tech support emails and billing…

OnePlus Open is set to be unveiled at an event in Mumbai on October 19. This is the first foldable phone from the Shenzhen-based company. Multiple leaks and reports surrounding the smartphone have surfaced in the past few weeks. Specifications, design renders, and price range of the handset have been tipped. The upcoming book-style foldable is speculated to compete with Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Google's Pixel Fold. In a new video shared by a YouTuber, we get a tour of the OnePlus headquarters and see glimpses of the…

Providing benefits like improved longevity and a less visible centre crease, the new waterdrop hinge design has grown popular among smartphone manufacturers looking to introduce the next generation of foldable smartphones. More recently, Samsung too joined several Chinese brands when it introduced its new foldable lineup for the year with the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Z Flip 5. Indeed, every manufacturer uses different components to achieve the same effect. It now appears that Samsung is ready to apply…

This year, the biggest feature of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5 is, the new hinge. This new hinge is thinner and lighter, and allows for the phones to now fold completely flat. That might not sound like a big deal, since others have been doing this for a few years, but Samsung has finally made this possible with its fifth-generation of foldables. Now, we can see side-by-side, how much smaller the hinge really is. The hinge is quite a bit smaller, as you can see, and this is thanks to having a more streamlined…

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 was launched on Wednesday at the South Korean company's second Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event of the year. The company's latest foldable smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy processor and sports a 7.6-inch AMOLED inner display, along with a 6.2-inch cover screen — both displays can refresh at up to 120Hz. The foldable handset uses Samsung's new Flex Hinge with a dual rail structure, which is aimed at diffusing external impact, according to…

Samsung is gearing up for its highly anticipated Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for July 26. The spotlight of the show will be on the latest additions to their foldable phone lineup: the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Z Flip 5. Building excitement,…