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What dating apps are really optimising. Hint: it isn’t love

Toronto, Feb 13 (The Conversation) In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, dating apps typically see a spike in new users and activity. More profiles are created, more messages sent, more swipes logged. Dating platforms market themselves as modern technological solutions to loneliness, right at your fingertips. And yet, for many people, the day meant to celebrate romantic connection feels lonelier than ever. This, rather than a personal failure or the reality of modern romance, is the outcome of how dating apps are designed and of the economic logic that governs them. These digital tools aren’t simply interfaces that

Heel push-ups while sitting may reduce post-meal blood sugar spikes by up to 52 pc: Review

New Delhi, Feb 13 (PTI) Lifting and lowering heels, or soleus push-ups, while sitting may reduce post-meal blood sugar spikes by up to 52 per cent and insulin response by 60 per cent during oral glucose tolerance tests, according to a review of previously published studies. Performing passive stretching exercises for 40 minutes acutely lowered blood glucose by up to 28 milligrams per decilitre, persistently improves blood flow to the femur or thigh by 30 per cent, findings published in the journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews show. Researchers, including those from New Delhi’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals

Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say

NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The United States has issued a general licence to India’s Reliance Industries Ltd that will allow the refiner to buy Venezuelan oil directly without violating sanctions, two sources familiar with the matter said. Following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, U.S. officials said Washington would ease sanctions imposed on Venezuela’s energy industry to facilitate a $2 billion oil supply deal between Caracas and Washington and an ambitious $100 billion reconstruction plan for the country’s oil industry. A general licence authorises the purchase, exportation, and sale of Venezuelan-origin oil that

Tarique Rahman spent 17 years in exile. He is now poised to lead Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh, February 13, 2026 (AP) — Tarique Rahman spent 17 years in self-imposed exile. Now, he is poised to become the prime minister of Bangladesh — and follow in the footsteps of his mother. Thursday’s national election seemed to hand Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party a majority, according to local media reports, marking a significant political shift in the South Asian nation of more than 170 million people. The BNP has also claimed victory. For Rahman, the turnaround is dramatic. The 60-year-old returned from London in December to a country in turmoil. Within days, his mother, former Prime Minister Khaleda

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