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Microsoft has a way to make your PowerPoints less boring

By Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post
Nov 21, 2015 5:08 am - Microsoft has made a pledge to move faster these days and recently announced that it's adding two new features to PowerPoint - and creating a way to let Microsoft fans g...
Here's why Microsoft built a tool to guess your emotions

By Abby Ohlheiser Washington Post
Nov 21, 2015 5:08 am - Months after Microsoft released a tool designed to guess the age of someone based on a photograph, the company has unleashed another round of fun tools designed to show ...
Tech opens new doors for online mental-health care

By Lena H. Sun Washington Post
Nov 21, 2015 5:00 am - When he's having a hard time coping, the 23-year-old Maryland man can get extra support with a few quick taps on his smartphone. That takes him to the Big White Wall, an...
How a months-old story of a terrorist attack in Kenya trended because of Paris

By Jessica Contrera Washington Post
Nov 21, 2015 4:27 am - In the hours after the deadly terrorist attack in Paris, social media was filled with signs of solidarity. A photo of a cousin in front of the Eiffel tower. Your aunt sa...
Why Edward Snowden thinks you should use an ad blocker

By Andrea Peterson Washington Post
Nov 21, 2015 4:05 am - It's no secret that ad blocking software is on the rise. One study released by Adobe and Pagefair, a company that tries to help publishers get around ad blocking tech, e...
Futuristic Apple store may expand Chicago's Magnificent Mile

Chicago Sun-Times
Nov 18, 2015 10:00 pm - A glitzy project with the potential to shift retail farther south may be coming to Chicago's Magnificent Mile. The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday got a look at a fu...
Dist. 214 event aims to teach young girls about STEM careers

By Anna Marie Kukec
Nov 15, 2015 6:45 am - Vidushi Reva Srivastava, 11, of Palatine was eager to build a small, simple circuit board on Saturday. She carefully put together some wires and tiny parts that could u...
The FCC says it can't force Google and Facebook to stop tracking their users

By Brian Fung and Andrea Peterson Washington Post
Nov 15, 2015 6:37 am - WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission said Friday that it will not seek to impose a requirement on Google, Facebook and other Internet companies that would ...
The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet

By Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Nov 14, 2015 6:40 am - Nostalgia for a purer, simpler time has already brought back the flip phone and the cassette. So it was only a matter of time, really, until someone attempted to revive ...
What a viral study about the harms of Facebook gets wrong

By Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Nov 14, 2015 6:39 am - It's human nature to seek simple solutions to complex, intractable problems. That's why we have fad diets and Luminosity and so-called "magic" supplements. It's also why...

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