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, ...

People tore apart a cutout of the device while chanting ‘get real friends.’ People tore apart a cutout of the device while chanting ‘get real friends.’ is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat ...

The Friend necklace promises constant companionship and understanding. But this isn’t friendship—it’s a soulless, cynical way to prey on our loneliness and fear. An advertising campaign for the ...

Friend, a tech start-up that’s selling an AI companion in the form of a pendant, has become the subject of arguably the year’s most controversial ad campaign (and in the wake of recent denim ...

New York City subway ads for a new pendant by AI startup Friend were quickly defaced by droves of angry residents. The company’s latest gizmo, a necklace designed to constantly listen to you via a ...

Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who is realizing his friends may find his personality hard to take. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling ...

A psychologist has gone viral for breaking down the four signs you are a "fringe friend"—a person who hovers on the outskirts of their social circle rather than being emotionally prioritized within it ...

Matthew Perry, who was best known for playing sarcastic, wisecracking Chandler Bing on NBC's smash hit comedy "Friends," has died at 54. Perry was found dead Saturday in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles ...

There's no denying that making friends as an adult is hard. Between the general anxiety around having to download a dedicated app like Bumble BFF and wanting to find the right "couch friend" to ...

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to preorder ...

Max has set Thursday, Dec. 19 for the premiere of Fast Friends, its upcoming Friends game show, hosted by Whitney Cummings. We’re also getting a first look at the four-part competition series in a ...

There's nothing better than having a couch friend. You know, the type of friend who you can be your full, authentic self with. This is the friend that you probably immediatetly texted first when you ...