Pay Dirt is Slate's money advice column. Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. I just turned 54, married, no children. Two decades ago, I took my liberal arts degree(s) and got an entry-level job at a solid healthcare company and have moved up to the point where I think I've reached my max potential. I am punching above my weight in my current role.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Jessica and Rich here. I recently started casually online dating after leaving an abusive marriage, and it's been going great! There have been lots of nice guys, and we have had some sexy fun. That said, I've run into a weird situation that I'm almost certainly overthinking but am baffled by.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Jessica and Rich here. We have sex two to three times a week, and it's wonderful. But I've been using AI tools for masturbation nearly every day. It's just so easy to explore wacky and fun scenarios (specifically in the fantasy and sci-fi genres) that I've found it dividing my attention from my girlfriend.

Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. For this edition, Hillary Frey, Slate's editor-in-chief, will be filling in as Prudie. My partner of five years and I just got married after two years of extensive wedding planning and preparation. We had a very large guest list with a variety of needs that needed to be taken into account, such as international travel and physical limitations, and I feel grateful that my husband was very intentional about making sure the labor of wedding planning was split as equitably as possible between the two of us. We agreed that we wanted to write our own vows because we thought it was more meaningful than using traditional ones.

Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. I was browsing a men-seeking-men dating app when I came across the profile of my neighbor, "Gary." He described himself as "single and looking for fun." I happen to know that Gary is married with two kids under 3 years old. The thing is, I don't know his wife "Bethany" that well; we've only ever waved to one another in the neighborhood and briefly engaged in small talk when we run into each other.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Jessica and Rich here. I am a newly divorced bisexual dad who's moved to a city adjacent to my 20-year-old son's college. He's extremely shy and hasn't talked about sex with me in years. He identifies as queer but has provided no more detail than that.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? A few months ago, I needed to have an emergency C-section a month before my due date. Thankfully I came through it safely, and have a wonderful little son. There is just one problem.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? I've just been informed of an assignment my son "Patrick" was given in middle school. He's to select a topic from a pre-approved list, ask ChatGPT to write an essay about it, submit that essay to the teacher, and then fact-check the essay, looking for things the AI got wrong. I do not want Patrick doing this assignment.

Jack Schofield, the Guardian's former computer editor and author of its technology advice column, Ask Jack, for almost 20 years, has died aged 72. Schofield was taken to hospital following a heart attack on Friday night and died on Tuesday afternoon. The Guardian's editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, said: "Jack Schofield was one of the first true technology and computing experts in British journalism. In more than 35 years writing for the Guardian, he saw (and foresaw) the rise of personal computers, the advent of the internet, Google, smartphones and much more. His Ask Jack column was an essential and expert guide for generations of Guardian readers. Our thoughts are with Jack's family and friends at this sad time."

Artificial intelligence (AI) can diagnose illnesses, fight parking tickets, and now, AI is being to find humans love. Dating app Hinge is currently testing a virtual assistant called'Audrey' that will act as the user's wing woman – it talks to their matches and sets up a date. The technology is currently in beta, but Hinge is said to offer the service for $99 a month in bid to'say goodbye to matching, messaging and scheduling'. Dating app Hinge is currently testing a virtual assistant called'Audrey' that will act as the user's wing woman – it talks to their matches and sets up a date. Audrey was designed to chat with a users matches and setup a date between the two.