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Will electric vehicles doom your neighborhood auto mechanic?

Peter Holley The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:24 am - Craig Van Batenburg began his career as an auto mechanic in 1970 after falling in love with the internal combustion engine. But for several years, the 67-year-old from M...
Analysis: Is Alexa really eavesdropping on you?

Brad Stone Bloomberg
Dec 16, 2017 6:22 am - I've gone all-in on Amazon's line of Alexa-powered speakers, installing them throughout my home and buying them for family members. We use them to play music and news, t...
Analysis: Five myths about bitcoin

Joseph Bonneau and Steven Goldfeder The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:22 am - This month, bitcoin, the digital currency launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, hit a record price of $17,428.42 per coin. It got its own futures market at a traditional...
Analysis: No, Bitcoin mining won't melt the polar ice caps

Elaine Ou Bloomberg
Dec 16, 2017 6:19 am - While much of the world marvels at bitcoin's meteoric rise, another part is focused on an environmental byproduct: The sheer amount of electricity that crypto-currencies...
Ex-Facebook VP: Social media is destroying society

Amy B Wang The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:18 am - A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his "tremendous guilt" over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded "the core foundati...
How Twitter is making tweetstorms official

Hayley Tsukayama The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:18 am - If you have a Twitter rant you really need to get off your chest, then it's your lucky day. Twitter announced Tuesday that it's adding a tool that makes it easy to threa...
Why Apple is buying Shazam now after years of declining popularity

Travis M. Andrews The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:18 am - Shazam was one of the earliest smartphone apps to capture the public's attention. Its simple yet useful function - identifying a song that's playing on the radio or else...
Review: 5 smart home gadgets worth the cost, setup, security risks

Geoffrey A. Fowler The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:00 am - Before you buy any “smart” gadgets, make sure they're not dumb. This holiday season, a third of Americans plan to buy a smart home device, according to the Consumer Tech...
What we searched for on Google in 2017: Meghan Markle, Matt Lauer, slime

By Eli Rosenberg The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2017 6:00 am - The top search term was for a disaster. The No. 1 searched person was a man accused of sexual harassment. And the most-searched how-to was how to make slime. The year 20...
4 crazy things that happened as the FCC ended net neutrality rules

By Brian Fung and Hamza Shaban The Washington Post
Dec 15, 2017 12:00 am - Telecom policy fights rarely lead to much excitement. They usually involve lawyers tossing such provocative words at each other as "common carrier" and "business data se...

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