The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. The AI-powered Friend ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friendships come in all shapes and sizes. When you find someone who is there for you through the highs and lows, knows just how to ...

Avi Schiffmann shows up to the WIRED office with a Friend hanging around his neck. It dangles there like a pendant on a necklace. It’s about the size and shape of an AirTag—a soft, round little puck ...

A lot of the language we use to describe the crucial phases of friendship is borrowed from romantic relationships: friend “crush,” for example, or friend “break up.” A friend can stick around longer ...

You can help shape what it looks like. By Paulette Perhach When Sandy Smith’s stepfather lost his job during the Great ...

In this reported essay, associate editor Aiyana Ishmael explores the phenomenon of being the floater friend, and argues that, despite the position being deemed undesirable by pop culture’s depictions ...

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My friend disappeared. I found out why years later when talking to another friend. He gave me a kind and brutal honesty, “I think you freaked him out, Jen.” During a time when my mind had caused me ...

You don’t have to know every detail of your friend’s relationship to sense that something’s…off. Maybe your bestie shrugs off her partner’s frequent texts like they’re no biggie (“He just worries when ...

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