Articles filed under Washington Post
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How a school nurse and a computer geek are getting rich off liceJun 30, 2019 6:00 am - Maybe it's not the very worst call that you can get from your kid's school, but it is a plenty bad one. Flunked out? No. Punched a student? Not that, either. Brought a p...
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How a networking newbie can make a great first impressionJun 30, 2019 6:00 am - Q: I was unimpressed with the letter writer in a recent column about time-wasting networkers. Networking is a complex skill set. The law student who annoyed the writer w...
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Five reasons you need a budgetJun 30, 2019 1:00 am - There are two loves in my life - my "boo" and my budget. OK, maybe my husband comes first, but I'm not kidding about my love affair with our budget. It's the road map to...
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Help Desk: How to fight the spies in your Chrome browserJun 29, 2019 6:25 am - Is your web browser spying on you? My recent column about the stark privacy differences between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox generated a lot of conversation - and q...
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How to stop companies from selling your dataJun 29, 2019 6:20 am - The second you fill out an online survey, purchase a new home or subscribe to a magazine, your information may be scooped up by a data company and sold to a subterranean...
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Analysis: Microsoft's missteps decades ago offer antitrust lessons for tech's Big FourJun 29, 2019 6:15 am - Of the five biggest tech companies in the U.S., Microsoft is the only one that isn't currently in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust authorities. The software giant alread...
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States are trying to stop data brokers from selling consumers' secretsJun 29, 2019 6:09 am - Until recently, Randy Koloski had never heard of Amerilist, a small business 25 miles north of Manhattan. But for $150, Amerilist makes available a list of information o...
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Fujitsu device turns sounds into light, vibrationsJun 29, 2019 6:00 am - TOKYO - Fujitsu will begin sales next month of a device that lets users sense sound through light and vibrations. Dubbed "Ontenna," the company hopes the device assists ...
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The world of bogus medicine infecting Facebook and YouTubeJun 29, 2019 6:00 am - Mari pressed kale leaves through the juicer, preparing the smoothie that she believed had saved her life. “I'm a cancer-killer, girl,” Mari told her niece, who stood nex...
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This cult video game is facing down copycats in ChinaJun 29, 2019 6:00 am - In The Legend of Mir, warriors and sorcerers battle creatures from an ancient universe. Now, WeMade Co.'s longtime video game hit is at the center of a string of legal b...