Articles filed under Washington Post
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How does a tech billionaire say sorry for his unauthorized wedding? With an app, of course.Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Sean Parker was in a bind. It was late May 2013, and a scandal was beginning to brew over his wedding, an opulent affair that was to be held on California's coast. State...
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Amazon may be working on 'database of suspicious persons' using facial recognitionDec 15, 2018 12:00 am - A patent application filed by Amazon offers a vision of how doorbell cameras could be equipped with new technology that would allow the devices to gather data and identi...
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Esports players say 'dream job' is more than fun and gamesDec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen, 21, remembers fantasizing about how awesome his life would be if he could become a professional video game player. “That's going to be a dream j...
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How tech workers are fueling a new employee activism movementDec 15, 2018 12:00 am - It was a busy fall for Google workers speaking out against their employer. On Nov. 27, a group of full-time employees and contractors were campaigning to extend new poli...
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Cohen says Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong, contradicting his former bossDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, said in a television interview set to air Friday that Trump knew it was wrong to make hush-money paym...
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Facebook: New bug allowed apps to access private photos of millions of usersDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that pe...
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'Nobody should work here - ever': Teen uses intercom to quit WalmartDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - Jackson Racicot, 17, looked around before flashing a subtle smile to the camera. It would be his last day working at the Walmart in Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada. In...
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Trump says he 'never directed' Cohen to break the law in payments to womenDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had directed his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law during the 2016 campaign by buying ...
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Trump claims 'money we save' from trade deal means 'Mexico is paying' for border wallDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that "money we save" from a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada would make good on his long-standing promise to ha...
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The math test that Illinois is nearly flunkingDec 12, 2018 12:00 am - It's a math test that New Jersey, Illinois, and even Texas are nearly failing: How to pay for billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities for public-employee pensions an...