Finding a long-term partner is trickier than ever, argues Paul C Brunson, a lead researcher at Tinder. David Robson asks him how cultural and technological shifts are changing our relationships. Technology offers us many new opportunities for meeting romantic or sexual partners, but has this altered our overall attitudes to dating and relationships? To find out, science writer David Robson spoke to Paul C Brunson, head of global research at Tinder and author of the new book Find Love: How to Navigate Modern Love and Discover the Right Partner for You. Is it true that finding a partner is harder now than ever before? Finding a partner has always been a very important decision, but based on the research for this book, I do believe that finding and keeping love today is harder than any point in human history. One reason is that today, we have more variations of what is considered an acceptable relationship. You can be monogamous or in a polyamorous relationship, living together or living apart – there are dozens and dozens of acceptable forms. And that makes finding the partner to match your end goal more challenging. Secondly, we demand more from our partner than ever before. Formerly, it was the person to help protect or raise the child, or to tend the farm. Then, as you move through the ages, it became someone who would be a companion. But now – as [psychologist] Eli Finkel discusses in his research – we've reached a point of "self-evolution", where we are searching for everything out of our partner. We want them to be our intellectual equal, we want them to be the CEO of the business that we launch, we want them to be a great co-parent, we want them to be a phenomenal sex partner. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240410-how-love-is-changing-in-the-tinder-age

A well-known taxidermied animal exhibition at Leicester's flagship museum is due to be closed to make way for a cafe. The Wild Space gallery at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery currently houses about 100 animals, including lions, zebras, snakes and monkeys. City mayor Peter Soulsby said the exhibition was looking "tired" and in need of updating. The space is set to be replaced by a cafe in a revamp of the museum. Leicester City Council said all the animals in the collection - most of which were preserved more than 100 years ago - will be taken away to be deep-cleaned, before being placed into storage, ready to form part of future displays. The display will permanently close on Sunday. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68714164

A Spanish TV station has sacked a pundit after he made a controversial remark about Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal before their Champions League fixture against Paris St-Germain. German Burgos, working for Movistar, was speaking over footage of Yamal doing kick-ups when he made the remark. Burgos is reported to have said: "If it doesn't go well for him, he could end up at a traffic light." Barcelona and PSG refused to give interviews to Movistar after the game. "Movistar Plus+ condemns any kind of discrimination and will not allow this type of comment from any of the employees or collaborators linked to the platform," the broadcaster said on Thursday. The remark, which has been interpreted as a reference to people who perform at traffic lights and ask drivers for money, came before Barcelona's quarter-final first-leg win against PSG on Wednesday. Burgos has apologised for the comment. "It was a comment made without meaning to hurt anyone. We talk about football, nothing else. If he felt offended, I am sorry and I apologise publicly," he said. Burgos, 54, earned 35 caps for Argentina during his playing career and spent six years in Spain with Mallorca and Atletico Madrid. Yamal, 16, was born in Spain to Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean parents. The winger, who already has six caps for Spain, became the youngest player to appear in a Champions League quarter-final during the victory in Paris. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68787596

s cold, driving rain swept across the rubbish- and rubble-strewn streets of Rafah early on Wednesday morning, residents of the crowded city in the south of Gaza set out to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Prayers were held in mosques badly damaged in the continuing Israeli offensive, in the crowded schools where many have lived since being forced to flee ruined homes elsewhere in the territory, and on the sand among the rows of tents now home to hundreds of thousands. By noon, the clouds had cleared but the spring sun brought little of the warmth usually associated with a day of faith, friendship and family. “It doesn’t feel like Eid because of the lack of a beautiful atmosphere, and we are not buying clothes and sweets, or gathering together like we usually do,” said Jana Muhammad Sorour, a 12-year-old dispatched by her displaced family to sell homemade goods to neighbours in Rafah to raise much-needed funds. “I hope that the war will stop and that I will get clothes and candy like other holidays, and most importantly, go home.” For Islam Wahba, 35, who fled to Rafah after her home in Nuseirat was destroyed in an airstrike, the festival brought new grief. Since the war started six months ago, her husband and six relatives have been killed. “When the prayers began, I started crying because it was my first Eid without my husband and so many of my family. When my children woke up, they began to look at pictures of their father and wish him a happy Eid. This is not Eid and cannot be Eid,” she said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/10/this-cannot-be-eid-gazas-survivors-mark-the-end-of-ramadan-in-the-shadow-of-war

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Samsung has issued an update to its Magician Software for Windows after a “high severity” vulnerability was found (h/t ComputerBase). The Samsung Magician Software is the firm’s feature-packed storage management utility, but version 8.0.0 is now known to be affected by CVE-2024-23769. Samsung released version 8.0.1 of this utility for PC users, fixing the vulnerability. The vulnerability with identifier CVE-2024-23769 has a CVE score of 7.3 and is thus classified as a high-severity security issue. According to Samsung, the vulnerability was first reported back on October 30 last year, and it credits Masahiro Iida for reporting the issue. In typical technical terms, Samsung and NIST describe the vulnerability as allowing “improper privilege control for the named pipe in Samsung Magician PC Software 8.0.0 (for Windows) allows a local attacker to read privileged data.” https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/samsung-magician-software-updated-after-high-severity-security-vulnerability-found

There are many apps competing for your attention on your Windows desktop at any given time: your websites, your email, your alerts, and your productivity software or games. But there’s some information that’s helpful to always have readily available: the weather, your CPU and RAM usage, or maybe a stock ticker. Windows 11 offers this functionality via the Widgets Panel, a collection of dynamic content “cards” that appear when you click on the so-called “live weather icon” (it appears by default on the left-hand side of the taskbar). However, Desktop Gadgets, which were introduced in Windows Vista and officially discontinued in Windows 8, still work and are a better choice for getting quick information, because they can live anywhere on your desktop. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/why-you-should-use-desktop-gadgets-instead-of-widgets-in-windows-11-or-10

Asus’ ROG Maximus Z790 Formula combines a “Moonlight White” aesthetic and hybrid VRM cooling, making it one of the more unique boards we’ve covered in a while. With a price of $724.99 (Newegg), it’s a high-end board, but don’t fret. Its specifications and convenience features are top-notch, so you’re getting a lot for the money. You get integrated Wi-Fi 7 and 5 GbE, an informative OLED screen, comprehensive PCIe 5.0 support (including M.2 socket and PCIe slots), flagship-class audio, a DIY-friendly design, and a premium appearance are just some of its features. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention Asus’ other Raptor Lake refresh motherboards. If you need 14th-gen support out of the box, there’s the Z790 Dark Hero ($649.99), our Z790 Formula ($749.99), Z790 Apex Encore for overclockers ($649.99) (we’ll cover this one soon), and some mid-range offerings like the ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming Wi-Fi II ($499.99) and Z790-F Gaming Wi-Fi II ($429.99). None of the MicroATX or ITX-size boards seem to get updates. However, several have the BIOS Flashback feature and could already be using a BIOS with support for the new processors. Performance on the ROG Maximus Z790 Formula was average to above average in most of our tests. Any results that were slower than the average would be tough to pick out without benchmarking and reading the data. As you’ll see later in the VRM tests, by default, the board lets the processor peak much higher than Intel’s defaults, for a while, then reaches a steady state of around 253W for the remainder of testing. Results in our gaming tests were average to above average as well. The only thing you need to worry about regarding performance is keeping the processor temperatures in line. Below, we’ll dig into the details of the board and see how it performs with the new Intel Core i9-14900K processor and against a few other refreshed Z790 motherboards. While it won’t make the best motherboards list, it’s still easy to recommend for users looking to water-cool their power delivery and don’t want the hassle of looking for compatible blocks. But before we get into those details, we’ll start by listing the specifications from Asus. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/asus-rog-maximus-z790-formula-review

Originally released on PC and Switch last November to glowing reviews, developer Mi’pu’mi, in collaboration with publisher Astragon Entertainment, recently released its innovative living ink title, Howl, for iOS and Android devices. Blending intuitive strategic elements with superb stylish visuals, Howl invites players into a dark folklore inspired mediaeval world, where a lone heroine must brave the dangers of werewolf infested labyrinths in an effort to find her lost brother. The adventure takes place across 60 levels, each one serving as a strategic puzzle where you must learn and predict the behaviour of its ravenous wolves in order to survive. As a special treat for you dear reader, we recently chatted with the devs behind the game to learn about the journey they took to finally bring Howl to mobile. Enjoy. First off, what do you feel Howl offers that distinguishes it from other apps? We see Living Ink as a key feature and USP to Howl and are very proud with what we have achieved there. The idea that the player is writing their own prophecy while playing by painting a piece of art is something we haven’t seen that often in games. The metaphor of an endless scroll that is written or painted while you progress your own story is a very strong and immersive element of the player's experience. https://www.pocketgamer.com/howl/developer-interview/

After being gone for more than a year, Blizzard's biggest games will soon return to China. Blizzard confirmed tonight that it has struck a new deal with NetEase to bring all the games covered by the previous publishing agreement, including World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, "and other titles in the Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft universes," back to the Chinese market. The new deal will take effect this summer. "We at Blizzard are thrilled to reestablish our partnership with NetEase and to work together, with deep appreciation for the collaboration between our teams, to deliver legendary gaming experiences to players in China," Blizzard president Johanna Faries said in a statement. "We are immensely grateful for the passion the Chinese community has shown for Blizzard games throughout the years, and we are focused on bringing our universes back to players with excellence and dedication." NetEase began publishing Blizzard games in mainland China in 2008, but that deal expired in January 2023, and was not renewed. Each company naturally pointed the finger at the other: NetEase said it "put in a great deal of effort and tried with our utmost sincerity to negotiate with Activision Blizzard," but that "material differences on key terms" prevented a new deal from being reached; Blizzard said NetEase was to blame for the shutdown because it wasn't willing to extend the existing deal by another six months while Blizzard looked for someone else to take the reins. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-year-and-a-half-after-its-bitter-breakup-with-netease-blizzard-has-reportedly-made-a-new-deal-to-bring-its-games-back-to-chinawith-netease/

In recent years, the guiding mantra of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) when it comes to supporting people into work has been ‘ABC’ – “Any job first, a Better job next and into a Career”. In reality, the government’s approach is too often pushing people into lower paid jobs that leave many with inadequate and insecure incomes. This ultimately increases the longer-term financial support required from the state, the opposite of what the government has set out to do. By flipping its approach and focusing instead on supporting people into jobs which are more suited to an individual’s skills, experience and ambitions, the government could not only help people lead more fulfilling and rewarding lives, it could also reinvest significant additional tax revenue and savings from universal credit (UC). Currently, the progression from ‘any job’ into a better job and then a career is more of an assumption than something the DWP is actively facilitating. People required to attend jobcentre appointments often report a culture where little attention is paid to their longer-term ambitions around work: “If you’re going out looking for your job yourself, you’re going to pick a better job or one that’s more suited for you. But in the jobcentre, they just tell you to pick as many jobs as possible and apply for them: ‘I don’t care what you do, what your skills are, what you’re interested in. Just apply for them and hit this quota so that I can sign you off and I’ve done my bit and received my pay cheque.’ I feel like it’s very much a numbers game for them because you have to just apply and apply and apply.” – Interviewee in NEF research on women’s experiences of the social security system Conditionality (the expectations people are required to meet to retain their benefits) explicitly enforces this approach. One condition of receiving support means people are allowed just one month to focus on jobs in their preferred sectors before they are required to apply for any position suggested by their work coach. The reach of conditionality has been increased over time, including to more single parents through the lone parent obligation. This was declared a success by DWP but has since been shown to have primarily led to low-paid and insecure jobs. Other research indicates that more than half of people (55%) in work and in receipt of UC are in severely insecure work – a combination of elements such as low or variable pay, part-time work and underemployment. If harsh and prescriptive conditions push people into low-quality, short-term jobs that result in frequent periods out of work, the scarring effects of unemployment can be compounded, reducing future career and living standards prospects. Stress and anxiety from poor interactions with the jobcentre can have a negative impact on people’s mental health, pushing them further from the labour market. Likewise, sanctions that drive people into destitution can further weaken their employment outcomes. More widely, conditions on benefits can undermine people’s trust in the jobcentre and DWP, reducing the chance of genuine engagement with support. It is likely that this approach is also loosening the lower end of the labour market by making more people search for and take up poorer-paid, less secure and less suitable jobs. This means lower-paid workers have reduced influence over their pay and conditions, suppressing earnings growth and diminishing the returns to government of employment support. Changing conditions for low earners The interactions people have with the benefits system are in flux. The minimum earnings necessary to avoid the threat of sanctions is rising while the time allowed to find the right job has been lowered. Alongside the broad real-terms cuts to working-age social security since 2010, a decade long transformation of social security has seen legacy benefits replaced by UC. This rollout of UC as the main working-age benefit is almost complete, with the penultimate stage of managed migration, now referred to as the move to UC, expected to end this year. As of December 2023, 520,000 families had been informed they need to apply for UC or risk their support ending. Almost all were in receipt of tax credits. An additional 440,000 notices are expected to be sent by September 2024 to some of the remaining legacy caseload. Approximately 600,000 households in receipt of income-related employment and support allowance (ESA) will be moved onto UC from 2028/29 onwards. Figure 1: Managed migration is bringing a wave of middle-age adults into the scope of conditionality https://neweconomics.org/2024/04/helping-people-into-good-jobs-rather-than-just-any-job-could-save-the-government-billions

The 2025 Toyota 4Runner was revealed today with an overlanding-focused Trailhunter model. The 4Runner Trailhunter comes exclusively with the 326-hp i-Force Max hybrid powertrain. The overland special also has 33-inch tires, add-ons like a snorkel air intake, a taller ride height, and unique Old Man Emu dampers. The 2025 Toyota 4Runner mirrors the Tacoma pickup truck in many ways, from its squared-off front end to its mix of gas and hybrid four-cylinder powertrains. Toyota's mid-size truck also introduced a new Trailhunter moniker when it debuted for the 2024 model year. Now, the redesigned 4Runner follows in the Tacoma's off-road tire tracks with its own Trailhunter variant that's geared towards overland exploration. Toyota describes the 4Runner Trailhunter as "a manufacturer-developed overland rig straight from the factory," essentially eliminating the need to go through third-party upfitters for those who want to explore the wilderness in their vehicles. The Trailhunter only comes with the i-Force Max hybrid powertrain, which consists of a 2.4-liter turbo four paired with an electric motor and a tiny 1.87-kWh battery. Total output is 326 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque. For those looking to take a dip, a high-mounted snorkel intake helps feed clean air to the i-Force Max engine. Similarly to the Tacoma version, the overland-oriented 4Runner trades the TRD Pro's Fox QS3 dampers for Old Man Emu 2.5-inch units with rear external reservoirs from ARB. The Trailhunter model also sits 2.0 inches higher at the front and 1.5 inches higher at the rear versus lesser 4Runners thanks to 33-inch Toyo Open Country all-terrain tires. Aside from the upgraded dampers, the Trailhunter uses the same front dual control-arm suspension and rear multilink setup as other 2025 4Runners. The Trailhunter also features a standard electronic locking rear differential as well as a disconnecting front anti-roll bar. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60432602/2025-toyota-4runner-trailhunter-details/

An art deco style picture house is being given a "new lease of life" and reopening as a live music venue. Built in the 1930s, the Wells Picture House closed its doors in 1993 before reopening in 2004 as a nightclub and then closing again in 2023. But after a £110,000 investment, the venue is set to reopen under the new name Studio 24 later. Venue manager, Luke Gardiner, said: "I hope it works - we'll give it everything." The money was invested into transforming the space with a state-of-the-art performance set-up, which will be able to host live music and events of all genres for all ages. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-68665988

A fire and rescue service says it has helped develop national standards and protocols after 20 years of animal rescue. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service recognised in 2004, the lack of formal procedures for helping animals who found themselves in tricky situations. So a small team of firefighters formed a new unit to provide specialist advice. Over the last two decades, the service has rescued a cow from a swimming pool, a python stuck in a car and a badger who used a cat flap to enter a house. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9zz3zj11po

England and Aston Villa forward Rachel Daly has retired from international football. The 32-year-old, who has 84 caps, was part of the England side that won Euro 2022. She came on as a late substitute in Tuesday's 2-0 Euro 2025 qualifying win over the Republic of Ireland. "I would love nothing more to play for England for ever but the time has come for me to hang my boots up on the international stage," Daly said. "While today is an extremely difficult day for me, it's also one filled with reflection and immense gratitude. Playing for and representing England has been a privilege." Daly made her England debut against Serbia in 2016, scoring the first of her 16 goals. She started all their games at Euro 2022 as they won their first major trophy. England manager Sarina Wiegman said: "I have never worked with a player so versatile, always with a smile on her face, bringing energy and trying to do her best for the team. "Rachel has been an incredible part of our story and the history we've made together. It has been a privilege to work with her." https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68778228