Articles filed under Washington Post
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What will it take to get us excited about smartphones again?Aug 18, 2018 1:05 am - Another autumn is fast approaching, and with it a new crop of smartphones. But if excitement over them seems a little muted this year, it's not just you. A PCMag survey ...
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CEO says he's rethinking the core of how Twitter worksAug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn't enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and fal...
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Cortana and Alexa are now friends. So how does that work?Aug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Amazon.com and Microsoft have officially set up the friendship between their two voice assistants, Alexa and Cortana, a year after announcing the partnership to expand t...
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Another sign of hard times for teachers? They make up nearly 10 percent of Airbnb hosts.Aug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Nearly 1 in 10 hosts who rent out their apartments, homes and spaces on Airbnb are teachers, according to a new survey by the company, another possible indicator of the ...
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EpiPen shortage raises alarm for parents as kids head back to schoolAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Jim Davis, a parent of an 8-year-old daughter who has a peanut allergy, was startled to learn that his Walgreens pharmacy did not have a single EpiPen available for her ...
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Abe Lincoln's library faces so much debt it's considering selling his stuffAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Sometimes, even Abraham Lincoln needs a GoFundMe campaign. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, which supports Lincoln's museum in Springfield has found ...
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Judge's move to grant bail in New Mexico compound case draws a Twitter mob - and death threatsAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - In her ruling that five suspects arrested at a New Mexico compound with 11 children could be released to house arrest on $20,000 bonds, Judge Sarah Backus indicated she ...
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Aretha Franklin 'worked for me,' claims Trump. Did she?Aug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Aretha Franklin hadn't ventured far from her adopted hometown of Detroit for three years. But in the final weeks of 1988, the "Queen of Soul" boarded a custom-made bus, ...
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From giving birth at 12 years old to 'physical fights': The difficult life and times of Aretha FranklinAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Aretha Franklin's music is tinged with a confident power - most notable in the way she transformed Otis Redding's "Respect" into a towering, demanding hurricane of a son...
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Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigationAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has told advisers that he is eager to strip more security clearances as part of an escalating attack against people who have criticiz...