The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. The AI-powered Friend ...

A wearable companion is a brilliant idea — in theory. By Amy X. Wang See them out there — those eight billion strangers? For close friendship to blossom between any two people, empirically speaking, ...

Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who doesn’t want to be reminded of her loneliness yet again. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author ...

My friendships exist in silos. Each hangout is a feverish one-on-one where we share fries and eye contact, confessions, rants, gossip, and mutual attempts at amateur therapy. This patchwork of ...