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6 wacky gadgets from CES 2017

Hayley Tsukayama The Washington Post
Jan 07, 2017 6:13 am - The tech industry's annual Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, is known for showing off a ton of crazy gadgets, both useful and fanciful. It's easy to dismiss some ...
The 10 most read stories on Dailyherald.com in 2016

Daily Herald staff report
Dec 30, 2016 9:00 am - The year on dailyherald.com started with everyone trying to get rich quick by hitting the Powerball, and it ended with Bill Murray and his brothers announcing they were ...
Q&A: OK Go on 10 years of viral videos, the internet

Abby Ohlheiser The Washington Post
Dec 17, 2016 6:19 am - The first OK Go viral video was an accidental success: the band made a tape of its intentionally goofy stage dance and put it online. It was 2005, the same year that You...
Seven ways to master your Instagram account

Hayley Tsukayama The Washington Post
Dec 17, 2016 6:16 am - Instagram, at first glance, seems like a pretty simple social network: snap, post, repeat. But while the service started as a way to share artful pictures from your smar...
Want to find a dead website? Try Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Andrea Peterson The Washington Post
Dec 10, 2016 6:18 am - It can be hard to find sites that have disappeared from the internet. But the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is on the verge of rolling out a feature that will make ...
Behind Reddit's crackdown on pro-Trump board, 'most toxic users'

Abby Ohlheiser The Washington Post
Dec 03, 2016 6:18 am - Very occasionally, a war on Reddit consumes everyone there. This is one of those times, and it is (in part) chief executive Steve Huffman's own doing. And now Huffman, w...
How Wikipedia tames partisanship on the internet

Jeff Guo The Washington Post
Oct 29, 2016 7:10 am - The internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Do...
Essay: What the internet loses when Vine shuts down

By Caitlin Dewey The Washington Post
Oct 29, 2016 7:00 am - Nothing good or simple ever survives the internet, which is presumably why Twitter is shuttering its six-second video app, Vine. Launched with one pure, uncomplicated pu...
Why Twitter, Spotify and other major services were down Friday

Andrea Peterson
Oct 21, 2016 1:00 am - Someone attacked a key part of the Internet's infrastructure Friday morning, causing some major services such as Twitter, Spotify and Airbnb to be inaccessible for some ...
The unbearable meaninglessness of memeing

Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Aug 27, 2016 7:40 am - No, it's not just you: Facebook memes have gotten really weird. I mean, they've always been - at least in some circles - but it feels as if 2016 has witnessed the mainst...

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