Articles filed under Washington Post
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Why Instagram is letting users like comments - or turn them off completelyDec 10, 2016 6:16 am - In the next few weeks, Instagram is going to look even more like its parent company, Facebook. The social network announced Tuesday that it will let users like individua...
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New sensor can track energy use of your home's appliancesDec 10, 2016 6:15 am - The plethora of electronic devices in your home may plug into the same walls and draw electricity from the same source, but each has a unique signature or fingerprint th...
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Hooked has millions of teens reading books by textDec 10, 2016 6:15 am - OK, it's not exactly Dickens. But how about a great story delivered to you by text message? That's the idea hatched by Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia. The two entreprene...
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Review: Oculus Rift Touch controllers make huge differenceDec 10, 2016 6:15 am - The Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset debuted earlier this year to much fanfare, but it was missing something that would have made playing around in the digital world ...
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Want your kids to get off their phones? Put yours down firstDec 10, 2016 6:12 am - Want to get your kids off their phones and back into the real world? A new study suggests that before you launch into the lecture about how you only see the tops of thei...
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App reviews: Really Bad Chess, C25K 5K Trainer FreeDec 10, 2016 6:11 am - Really Bad Chess Really Bad Chess is an engaging and wacky version of the classic game, which assigns players a random set of chess pieces. The pieces move in the s...
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New chatbot takes the 'human' out of human resourcesDec 10, 2016 6:10 am - Some of the questions you ask your human resources department could soon be answered by, well, non-humans. That's the concept behind Talla, a Boston-area start-up that h...
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Was the Eaton trade really that bad for the Nationals?Dec 08, 2016 12:00 am - Late Wednesday night, I walked through the lobby at the Gaylord National Harbor Hotel, and a baseball executive stopped me, widened his eyes as if to say, "What the heck...
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Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influenceDec 08, 2016 12:00 am - President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John Kelly as secretary of Homeland Security, officials familiar with the decision said Wednesday, recruiti...
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How DraftKings, FanDuel hope to woo the fedsDec 06, 2016 12:00 am - When DraftKings and FanDuel announced last month that they planned to merge, it spelled the end of a costly war for market share in the daily fantasy sports industry. Fa...