OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers, AirPod wireless headphones with longer battery life and HomePod Mini speakers in three more colors. But a different and unheralded Apple release is garnering so much interest that it has become the company’s most back-ordered new product: a…
Three months after they were introduced, Dr. Abby Brecher and Gregory Alan Marcus finally met in May 2020 for a walk in Riverside Park in Manhattan. “I never dated casually,” said Dr. Brecher, 34, a pediatric dentist at Slim Dental Kids in Manhattan. “I wanted to have a lifelong partner. I could have plenty of…
The first time Marideth Leigh Batchelor met Austin Jeffrey Telenko, she was wearing wiener dog pajama shorts and a baggy T-shirt. “I looked crazy,” Ms. Batchelor, 23, said with a laugh. Both professional dancers and choreographers, Ms. Batchelor and Mr. Telenko in September 2019 had been cast in “Dead Man’s Party,” a Halloween-themed production at…
Bill Prady and Jessica Queller both remember almost every twist and turn in their nearly two-decade-long journey together. The details of their relationship trajectory align like those of a good romantic comedy. It’s the subplot that trips them up. The couple agree on the basics. They met in Los Angeles in 2003 as staff writers…
Were it not for two goats named Thelma and Louise, Lauren Trout and Chris Angeloro may not have had a love story. When they met in June 2016, the women lived in Austin. Ms. Trout is a Texas native; Ms. Angeloro, who was born in Massachusetts, moved there as a child. While they had friends…
Since meeting in February 2012, Natalie Joumblat and Harrison Van Der Linde have spent more time apart than together. The pair met in a business class at the University of California, Davis, during their junior year and started dating soon after. “We sat together in class, studied together, ate together, worked out together,” Dr. Van…
When Emily Feeks, a Navy cryptologist based in San Diego, was transferred to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., in 2013, she viewed the move as a chance at a fresh start. The year before, on Aug. 16, 2012, her husband of 11 months, the Navy SEAL Patrick Feeks, was killed in a helicopter…
Scroll TikTok for even just a few minutes, and you’re likely to encounter a video of gooey cheese being pulled into shiny, stretchy strands. It’s a mesmerizing moment — scientifically proven to release brain chemicals similar to the ones involved in addiction. The mozzarella stick is one of the most recognizable formats for this so-called…
When Anna Johnson and Trivante Bloodman first met at Mississippi State in January 2013, he seemed eager to strike up a conversation with her. She was a little apprehensive. The two, then sophomores, did engage in some small talk after he took the seat next to her in class. “We didn’t exchange names or anything,…
On their first date in October 2014, Randy James told Ashley Finigan he loved her. Twice. “Usually, I would have bolted,” said Ms. Finigan, 35. “But I remember believing him.” The couple matched on the dating app Tinder before meeting in person at the Promontory, a restaurant in Hyde Park, Ill. “We were just connecting…