Information Technology
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Best way to message POTUS: Facebook chatbot or old-fashioned email?
Aug 13, 2016 7:16 am - Have you ever wished getting in touch with the president was as easy as IMing your friends? Well, you can now send President Obama private messages through the White Hou...
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App reviews: Slip Away, Mad Libs
Aug 13, 2016 7:15 am - Slip Away Slip Away is a fun, good-looking and quick game that asks you to navigate a jellyfish through a dark and hostile ocean. How hostile? Almost everything you...
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Listen to this app to drown out other noises, or just get trippy
Aug 13, 2016 7:14 am - The Washington Post moved to new offices late last year, and while many things are an improvement, we are sitting closer together in a space that is Silicon Valley-start...
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Analysis: What took Apple so long to offer a 'bug bounty'?
Aug 13, 2016 7:13 am - Apple will finally start paying out cash rewards to researchers who find security problems in their products, the company announced at the BlackHat cybersecurity confere...
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Analysis: Feds just lost a big court battle over public Internet service
Aug 13, 2016 7:11 am - Federal regulators just suffered a major setback in their efforts to help cities build Internet services that compete with large providers such as Comcast and Time Warne...
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Lawsuit: How a quiet Kansas home wound up with 600 million IP addresses and a world of trouble
Aug 13, 2016 7:11 am - A two-hour drive from the geographic center of the United States sits a quiet farmhouse near Potwin, Kansas. Joyce Vogelman Taylor's grandfather built the house in 1902,...
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Analysis: Another Tesla crash. Do autopilot critics have a point?
Aug 13, 2016 7:00 am - Another day, another crash involving a Tesla. On Wednesday, Tesla said one of its customers in Beijing was caught unprepared last week when his car, which had autopilot ...
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Can you survive a device-free dinner?
Aug 13, 2016 7:00 am - Sick of Snapchat popping up alongside your snap beans at dinner? Common Sense, an advocacy and education group for parents, has a suggestion: Persuade your family to try...
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Analysis: Hulu is getting rid of what made it famous
Aug 13, 2016 7:00 am - We've reached the end of an era in online television. After years of serving the internet thousands of shows for free, Hulu is cutting off support for its no-cost stream...
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Assembly Show encourages integration of robotics in manufacturingAug 11, 2016 1:00 am - ROSEMONT - The Assembly Show will be showcasing robotics in manufacturing at the 2016 event, taking place Oct. 25-27 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosem...