Articles filed under Washington Post
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Try tough love to set boundaries for huggy employeeJun 23, 2019 6:10 am - Q: I supervise an employee who cannot seem to stop hugging staff. She's 22, and this is her first professional job out of college. She's a racial minority and from anoth...
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Brides and grooms are asking for down payments, pizza and TSA PrecheckJun 23, 2019 6:00 am - For their November wedding, Ann Marie Amick and Michael Martin spent hours fine-tuning their registry. They requested steak knives and serving bowls, picture frames and ...
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Be careful around pool chemicalsJun 22, 2019 7:30 am - For the past decade, exposure to chemicals that keep swimming pool waters clear and germ-free has sent an average of 4,535 people a year to the emergency room for treatm...
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Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It's time to switch.Jun 22, 2019 6:22 am - You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found i...
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Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals, threatening a new kind of health crisisJun 22, 2019 6:16 am - In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, from administering measles vaccines for children to pioneering next-generation tools tha...
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What's in the new House bipartisan anti-robocall billJun 22, 2019 6:07 am - House lawmakers on Thursday announced a new bipartisan compromise on a bill to combat robocalls, a proposal that Democrats and Republicans hope will lessen interruptions...
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Survey: Americans lack trust in social networks' judgment to remove offensive postsJun 22, 2019 6:00 am - Most Americans believe social media companies have a responsibility to remove offensive content from their platforms. But how tech firms decide what posts should be take...
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Domino's will start delivering pizzas via an autonomous robot this fallJun 22, 2019 6:00 am - For months now, the robotics company Nuro has been using electric, self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries to Kroger customers in Phoenix and Houston. Now the Silicon...
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Your phone may have a cure for your fear of flyingJun 22, 2019 6:00 am - After an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed on March 10, killing the 157 people onboard, Nic Johns noticed something uncomfortable. The app he developed, a number-crunchi...
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Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movementJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - A wealthy Manhattan couple has emerged as significant financiers of the anti-vaccine movement, contributing more than $3 million in recent years to groups that stoke fea...