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Americans are turning to dating apps to find friends
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. You might consider trying a dating app. That's what 26-year-old Gaby Deimeke did after she moved to Austin, Texas, in 2019. After hearing about Bumble BFF at a music festival, Deimeke download the app and gave it a try.
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Pet dating site 'Pinder' helps animals find love, friendship
Pets need companions too, and now there's a website to help them. Pinder, a pet website styled after human dating app Tinder, allows owners to find pals for their pets, the New York Post reported. "We're just taking the effective format of Tinder and applying it to the pet community," Kevin Botero, the founder of Pinder, told the Post. The website shows only pet profiles – the profile setup page says "no humans allowed" – and currently all pets have to be in costume for the website's Halloween costume contest. According to the Post, the contest is a way to kick off the website's launch.
Inside China's experiment to find friends for 230 million old people
Care bots are part of a big bet China's making on robots. The country is already the world's largest producer of industrial robots and the largest buyer of robots in the world. China's factories spent more than $3 billion on industrial robots in 2015, according to the International Federation of Robotics and Bernstein Research. The government is also focused on developing service robots, and has laid out a plan to turn it into a 30-billion-yuan industry (about $4.35 billion USD) by 2020. A big part of that will be caregiving and companion robots for the elderly.
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