Articles filed under Washington Post
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Wearable technology soon could allow your boss to track your performanceJul 06, 2019 6:09 am - The rise of wearable devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbit offer us the ability to turn our daily lives into an never-ending catalog of interpretable data: tracking ho...
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This seafood restaurant's latest catch: Robots that greet customers and deliver foodJul 06, 2019 6:08 am - More than three decades ago, when John Soysal first started waiting tables as a young man, the restaurant industry was a very different place. Online reviews didn't exis...
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Troll patrol: How Amazon's Twitch is protecting its LGBT communityJul 06, 2019 6:07 am - On May 25, Twitch, the livestreaming service owned by Amazon.com, came under attack. A band of anonymous trolls began flooding the service with pornography, copyrighted ...
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The power of Google and Amazon looms over tech IPOsJul 06, 2019 6:00 am - After a years-long drought, a wave of technology startups - Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and more - are going public, evidence that the sector is thriving. But there's a shadow...
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Commentary: Big Tech has dug a moat that rivals and regulators can't crossJul 06, 2019 6:00 am - As U.S. anti-monopoly authorities weigh possible investigations into America's technology superpowers, there is one advantage the government can't touch: the size, scale...
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Billionaire Chris Cline, the 'King of Coal,' among 7 killed in helicopter crashJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - Billionaire coal baron Chris Cline, whose mines were among the most productive in the country, died in a Fourth of July helicopter crash that killed seven people traveli...
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Aftershocks rattle California after 6.4-magnitude earthquakeJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - California is being rattled by a "swarm" of aftershocks after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit during the Fourth of July holiday, the largest the state has experienced in ...
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Trump says he is 'thinking of' executive order to revive census citizenship questionJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that he is "thinking of" issuing an executive order to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 Census, telli...
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Facebook wants to limit the reach of bogus medical 'cures' by treating them like spamJul 03, 2019 6:00 am - In private Facebook groups devoted to natural treatments for cancer and other ailments, hundreds of thousands of members tell each other that baking soda, apple cider vi...
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Fact check: Would Medicare-for-all mean hospitals for none?Jul 03, 2019 1:00 am - "If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, 'How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at t...