"Humans are a social species. We are highly dependent on others from birth," said Elizabeth Necka, an expert on social and behavioral science at the National Institutes of Health. "So feeling socially ...

Listening to music via Bluetooth isn't as simple as plugging in a pair of headphones and playing audio from your device. Yet Bluetooth headphones and earbuds offer a wireless connection that's ...

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The goal of the “U.S. Chamber of Connection” is to make transplants feel at home in their new city, including Seattle, where the organization is launching its pilot. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) ...

When Andrea Levitt, 82, first met Angelo Williams, 16, at a cookies-and-tea event in New York City a few months ago, she was feeling down. She lives alone and has been more isolated in recent years, ...

Health and fitness tracking can get complicated if you’re using multiple services or jumping between different devices that are natively unsupported. But Google has a tool that should harmonize the ...

With the frenzied pace of modern life, many of us don’t socialize as much as we’d like. We often feel like there’s no time or energy for lunch with co-workers, a weekend getaway with friends, a visit ...

Platforms to connect apps that wouldn’t normally talk to each other have been around for a minute (see: Zapier). But they have not gotten dramatically simpler to use if you’re nontechnical. Generative ...