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Google searches show the change in how America feels about gay marriage

By Christopher Ingraham Washington Post
Sep 12, 2015 7:39 am - America has pretty much chilled out about gay marriage. That, at least, is what our Google searches seem to say. The folks at Google's NewsLab gave us the most popular g...
How copyright is killing your favorite memes

By Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Sep 12, 2015 7:38 am - Socially Awkward Penguin is arguably one of the most recognizable memes on the Internet. The blue-backgrounded image of the off-balance penguin - superimposed with funny...
Netflix sets sights on Asian markets

By Christopher Palmeri Bloomberg News
Sep 12, 2015 7:37 am - LOS ANGELES - Netflix plans to enter Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea early next year as the online video-streaming company races to complete a global rollou...
Why Google's logo got a makeover

By Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post
Sep 07, 2015 7:00 am - Google on Tuesday debuted a new look for its familiar logo. The letters in Google's name are still in the same four colors — yellow, blue, red and green — but the font h...
Can we guess who you are based on your Facebook likes?

By Caitlin Dewey Washington Post
Sep 05, 2015 7:35 am - A vaguely disconcerting app from researchers at the University of Cambridge can guess how old you are, how smart you are and who you like to sleep with. It's not magic, ...
Tired of Tinder? Here's Damn Love, an app that's all about breakups

By Lisa Bonos Washington Post
Sep 05, 2015 7:33 am - Tired of swiping left and right looking for that perfect match? I recently downloaded an anti-dating app, Damn Love, created by E. Jean Carroll, who's spent decades as a...
Inside the high-stakes quest to design a computer program that 'gets' sarcasm online

By Caitlin Dewey The Washington Post
Aug 29, 2015 7:35 am - Sarcasm on the Internet, the old Web adage goes, is kind of like winking on the phone. It's pointless. It's invisible. It's almost always misunderstood. And for linguist...
YouTube's video-game streaming challenge

By Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post
Aug 29, 2015 7:34 am - YouTube stepped into the world of game-streaming Wednesday with the official launch of YouTube Gaming - its answer to Amazon's popular Twitch. The new section of YouTube...
Review: Facetune allows users to remove imperfections, reshape their features

By Elizabeth Chang Washington Post
Aug 29, 2015 7:33 am - The social media arms race is ever-escalating. First you had to post about what you were doing (Finally visiting the Grand Canyon!). Then you had to include a picture fr...
How the Internet actually makes you happier

By Caitlin Dewey The Washington Post
Aug 29, 2015 7:31 am - According to a strain of trend piece popular in certain circles these days, the Web is some kind of social parasite, eating our decency and confidence and good humor awa...

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