Istanbul was working its magic. I’d woken to the smell of saffron and oranges and spent the afternoon watching the sun set ...

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to “fight big-city loneliness.” The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...

My first trip was to Peru, where I travelled with a company called Plotpackers. The group was pretty young, aged between 18 and 30, and the itinerary was packed. It included everything from dune buggy ...

A 2023 survey found that 61% of Americans expected to feel lonely or sad during the holidays. Timeleft is an app that matches users with strangers for dinner via a personality algorithm. When David ...

Everyone in my group had attended at least five dinners with the platform, so they were past the awkwardness that you'd think would come from meeting with a group of strangers for the first time.