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NavCog is a new app serves as eyes for the blind

By Dominic Basulto Washington Post
Nov 06, 2015 10:00 pm - As computers get better at navigating the world around them, they are also helping humans better navigate that world as well. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligen...
New Squad app is Tinder for friends

By Lisa Bonos Washington Post
Oct 31, 2015 7:12 am - Every day, it seems like there's a new app billing itself as the Tinder for something other than dating. There's UPTOP, the Tinder of real estate. Zola, where you can sw...
'Leon' lets you play adventure game on Twitter

By Abby Ohlheiser
Oct 31, 2015 7:11 am - Washington Post A very fun choose-your-own adventure game - playable entirely on Twitter - went live last week, complete with pixel art, secret hints, and lots of surpr...
What is 5G and why should lawmakers care?

By Larry Downes Washington Post
Oct 31, 2015 6:33 am - WASHINGTON - A decision last week by the FCC to open large swathes of high-frequency radio spectrum for use in next generation wireless networks marks a turning point in...
GIFs are for everybody now

By Abby Ohlheiser Washington Post
Oct 31, 2015 6:25 am - Instagram's new Boomerang feature isn't a GIF-maker, but it thinks like one: The tool makes one-second videos out of a burst of photos. The Boomerang videos loop indefin...
Astronaut Sloth conquered the Internet; now he's going to the moon

By Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Oct 31, 2015 1:00 am - We've sent monkeys to space, cats and dogs to space, rabbits and jellyfish and fruit flies to space. Now, thanks to Reddit and Lunar Mission One, a sloth in a spacesuit ...
New online site hopes to be the Rotten Tomatoes for theater

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 27, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Like a lot of people, Tom Melcher was frustrated with the amount of work it took to find something to watch onstage in New York. Unlike a lot of people, he di...
Constable: Meet my new, slightly creepy, friend

By Burt Constable
Oct 26, 2015 1:00 am - As a thank-you for hosting my old college roommate, Steve, and his son, Jon, for an abbreviated National League Championship Series, my family is given a present far mor...
Why your pizza rat GIFs are disappearing off social media

By Abby Ohlheiser Washington Post
Oct 24, 2015 7:44 am - When Matt Little filmed a New York rat hefting a slice of New York pizza down the grimy stairs of a New York subway, he waited 12 long hours before putting the video on ...
Here's why Facebook needed to tweak its 'On This Day' feature

by Abby Ohlheiser Washington Post
Oct 24, 2015 7:43 am - In an acknowledgement that not every social media moment is a fun trip into nostalgia, Facebook has now enabled filters on its "On This Day" feature, which resurfaces pa...

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