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Thieves see bonanza in Prime Day

Olivia Rockeman Bloomberg
Jul 16, 2019 1:00 am - Amazon's Prime Day gives an opportunity for shoppers to flex their deal-spotting muscles ahead of Black Friday - and their own chance to warm up for thieves. Although th...
Amazon's Prime Day: 5 things to know before you shop

By Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post
Jul 15, 2019 1:00 am - Prime Day, Amazon's made-up annual shopping event, is upon us. The two-day sale brings in billions of dollars for the company and has become one of its top-grossing even...
How Facebook fought fake news about Facebook

Mark Bergen, Kurt Wagner Bloomberg News
Jul 13, 2019 6:22 am - A month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a rumor spread on Facebook. People were sharing a viral gimmick familiar to email spammers: Copy and paste this messa...
4 tech start-ups looking to disrupt the affordable housing industry

Pamela Babcock The Washington Post
Jul 13, 2019 6:12 am - The United States is in the grips of an affordable housing crisis with many people of low and moderate incomes struggling to find inexpensive places to live. Until recen...
Wildlife traffickers use Facebook, Instagram to find black-market buyers

Kurt Wagner Bloomberg
Jul 13, 2019 6:10 am - Ali Ahamed's black satchel was overflowing with turtles, their tiny heads poking out. Just a few feet away, on the hotel room floor, roughly 20 larger turtles with dark ...
Ruthless, 'superhuman' poker-playing computer program makes elite players fold

Joel Achenbach The Washington Post
Jul 13, 2019 6:08 am - Jason Les, one of the world's premier poker players, was representing his species when he faced off in May against a computer program named Pluribus. The game was multip...
Top Tesla investor tries again to get Elon Musk to fine-tune strategy

Craig Trudell and Ed Hammond Bloomberg
Jul 13, 2019 6:05 am - For the third time in the past year, Tesla's largest outside shareholder is openly advocating for Elon Musk to fine-tune his approach to communicating with the market. T...
AirDrop requests have become Gen Z's version of passing notes

Terry Nguyen The Washington Post
Jul 13, 2019 6:00 am - On the second day of sociology class, Emily Choi was interrupted from her mid-class social media scroll by an unexpected buzz. It was an AirDrop request that froze her p...
Commentary: Internet 101 should be a required class

Tyler Cowen Bloomberg
Jul 13, 2019 6:00 am - If Americans agree on anything these days, it's that our schools could be much better, and that internet culture is harming our children. I have a simple proposal to add...
Google employs humans to listen to some voice-assistant recordings

Greg Bensinger The Washington Post
Jul 13, 2019 6:00 am - Contractors employed by Google listen to recordings of conversations customers have with their Google voice-activated devices, the search giant said Thursday, adding to ...

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