Articles filed under Washington Post
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Are you still a VR skeptic? So is Nintendo.Jun 25, 2016 7:16 am - LOS ANGELES - Everywhere you look at E3 - the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming conference held recently - there seems to be something pitching virtual reality...
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Hollywood turning to big data to write the next blockbusterJun 25, 2016 7:14 am - Your Facebook posts and tweets may contain hidden creativity. In fact, they could be helping to write the next Hollywood blockbuster. As once-monolithic television audie...
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A new algorithm could predict ISIS attacksJun 25, 2016 7:13 am - It was September 2014, and machine gun and artillery fire had erupted in small villages just west of Kobani, Syria. The Islamic State had started a siege on the border t...
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Ditching the iPhone headphone jack is annoying for everyone except AppleJun 25, 2016 7:13 am - Look. I didn't want to get into this. I feel like we probably have better things to talk about. But the furor continues over reports that Apple is doing away with its st...
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One step by government may unlock speed, power of mobile technologyJun 25, 2016 7:13 am - When you use the LTE connection in your smartphone, that mobile data travels over invisible airwaves that support everything from Google Maps to FaceTime. But not long f...
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Atari computer started lonely kid on a path to business successJun 25, 2016 7:12 am - Mykel Nahorniak was a youngster growing up in Orton, Ontario (pop. 2,595), an hour northwest of Toronto, when his father brought home an Atari computer. The future techi...
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You won't be typing the rifle emoji into a text any time soonJun 25, 2016 7:11 am - If you prefer emoji to actual words, you can now read classic works like "Moby Dick," the Bible and Shakespeare's plays - adaptations include "YOLO Juliet" - in pictogra...
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How to find bad drivers on the road near youJun 25, 2016 7:10 am - The idea behind app Nexar is ambitious: create a type of air-traffic control system for the road. Catalog the cars in a given location, track dicey behavior and help dri...
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Google aims to make searching medical symptoms less terrifyingJun 25, 2016 7:00 am - Even if you're not a hypochondriac by nature, jumping on Google to do some research when you have a mysterious headache or cough has been enough to make you one. For yea...
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Why this year's iPhone may be kinda lameJun 25, 2016 7:00 am - Rumor has it that Apple's going to seriously shake up the way it updates the iPhone — and you probably won't like it that much. For nearly a decade, Apple has alternated...