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Breeze: Can a Dutch app save Brits from swiping past our dismal dating scene?

Breeze: Can a Dutch app save Brits from swiping past our dismal dating scene?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Ruben knew as soon as he met Liv that his single life was over. He left their first date in Rotterdam and ran immediately to tell his friends he’d met the one. Six weeks later, they were official and have been inseparable ever since; scuba diving in Egypt, island-hopping in the Philippines, wine tasting in Champagne. “We never get bored together,” he says. This July, the couple will get the keys to the home they’ve bought together. “What may the future hold? We don’t know yet,” Ruben says. “Who knows, maybe getting married?” The Dutch couple are one of many success stories spawning from the dating app Breeze, which launched in Europe in 2020 before landing in London in 2025. Breeze promises date nights …

Stop swiping away Android notifications — there’s a smarter way to deal with them

Stop swiping away Android notifications — there’s a smarter way to deal with them

Published by skeptic

I used to default to swiping away all of my notifications on Android, almost as if there was some virtue in achieving “notification zero” much like inbox zero. But Android has several tools to handle notifications (including new Enhanced Notifications on the Pixel) so that you don’t have to always swipe them away: you can have important ones go away for now, but come back later with notification snoozing, which is off by default. Not only that, but if you swipe away an important notification you want to go back to, you can turn on notification history, which lets you easily revisit notifications you swiped away. Again, this is off by default, but I’ll show you how to enable both of these features. This idea of better managing notifications also has to do with maintaining your peace of mind by having a pull relationship with your notifications so that you only allow a limited number of notifications to bother you (those are “push”) versus situations where you want to deal with apps only when you’re …