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A couple holds hands as they are married by a county clerk during a Valentine's Day group wedding ceremony on the steps of the Dade County Courthouse in Miami, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022, a 4% increase from the year before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report published Friday, March 15, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A pair of psychologists at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, has found evidence showing that married couples who regularly engage in phone snubbing (phubbing) have lower marriage satisfaction than couples who do not. In their study, reported in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, Suat Kılıçarslan and İzzet Parmaksız sent questionnaires to married couples in Turkey and compiled results…

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court ruled Friday that conservative Christians have a free-speech right to refuse to provide some business services for same-sex marriages, even in states like California where civil rights laws forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation.The justices by a 6-3 vote sided with a graphic artist in Colorado who said she wants to expand her business to design custom websites that celebrate impending marriages, but not for same-sex couples. She cited her belief as a Christian that marriage is…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study has revealed for the first time that the crime of forced marriage remains rife in England and Wales. The research on Forced Marriage Protection Orders, a civil injunction designed to prevent forced marriages, uncovers the scale of the problem and proposes new measures urgently needed to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For many young adults, single life in American culture has become synonymous with sexual experimentation in both committed romantic dating relationships and casual sexual hook-ups. However, most single adults in the United States today still desire to one day have a successful, lifelong marriage. Because of these trends, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that over half of…

Flag of the Dutch West India Company. Credit: Wikipedia/ Public Domain Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. Ph.D. student Sophie Rose has investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. "You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hierarchy." …

OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large language model that was rumored to be in development for much of last year. The company's last surprise hit, ChatGPT, was always going to be a hard act to follow, but OpenAI has made GPT-4 even bigger and better. Yet how much bigger and why it’s better, OpenAI won’t say. GPT-4 is the most secretive release the company has ever put out, marking its transition from nonprofit lab to for-profit tech firm. What we do know is that GPT-4 is a multimodal large…

In a year that saw lockdowns life completely, Hollywood saw a spate of weddings as the eagerly awaited nuptials of several celebrity couples took place. As the year draws to a close, we look at some of the biggest.1. Ben Affleck and Jennifer LopezWhen actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez announced their engagement 20 years ago, it was one of the most anticipated weddings, which eventually took place in 2002. The two, however, split in 2004, and began new relationships with other people, only to get back together in…

Writer-director Jemima Khan said she wanted to challenge "preconceptions that a lot of people in the West have about arranged marriages" when she tackled her first script for the movie `What`s Love Got To Do With It`, which opened the Red Sea International Film Festival this week. "I had wanted to make a film that showed Pakistan in a more colourful and hospitable and positive light than perhaps we usually see in our screens in the West," said Khan, who lived in the country for a decade after marrying her former husband…

BMW and Louis Vuitton share over 215,000 followers on Twitter, which suggests their partnership with a line of luxury luggage is a good match. Credit: BMW Brand partnerships between seemingly disparate companies or organizations are all around us. Clothing retailer H&M partnered with animal rights group PETA in 2021 to launch a…