Articles filed under Washington Post
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Apple's HomePod is finally ready, but is it too late?Jan 27, 2018 12:10 am - Apple on Tuesday announced a Feb 9. release date for its smart speaker called the HomePod - allowing the company that first popularized virtual assistants through its sm...
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Analysis: The trouble with Facebook's plan to rate media credibilityJan 27, 2018 12:10 am - When Facebook announced a plan to rely on surveys of users to rank news organizations' credibility and give greater prominence to "broadly trusted" outlets, it shared fe...
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How would it work if Facebook were run like your cable company?Jan 27, 2018 12:00 am - As Facebook seeks to weather a storm of criticism over its handling of news and politics, one of the world's biggest media titans argued Monday that the social network c...
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A look at who owns bitcoin (young men), and why (lack of trust)Jan 27, 2018 12:00 am - Chances are, you've heard of bitcoin. But the odds are much smaller that you actually have a stake in it. Nearly 60 percent of Americans have heard or read about the wor...
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Trump ready to apologize for retweeting anti-Muslim videosJan 26, 2018 12:00 am - President Donald Trump said in a British television interview Friday that he was ready to apologize for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from a far-right British group, and...
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Doomsday Clock now 2 minutes to 'midnight,' symbolic hour of apocalypseJan 25, 2018 12:00 am - Alexa, what time is the apocalypse? Ulp. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the symbolic Doomsday Clock a notch closer to the end of humanity Thursday, movin...
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Q&A: What you should know about the flu season this yearJan 25, 2018 12:00 am - This year's flu season is already the most widespread on record since health officials began keeping track 13 years ago, and has already caused the deaths of more ch...
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Mom: Paramedics said 6-year-old had common flu symptoms; now she's deadJan 24, 2018 12:00 am - Six-year-old Emily Muth first fell ill with the flu on Jan. 16. Three days later, she had difficulty breathing, so her mother, Rhonda Muth, called for an ambulance. Muth...
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Tammy Duckworth, who will be Senate's first new mom, has record of blazing trailsJan 24, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life has been marked with momentous firsts, the most dramatic of which arrived about 120 combat hours into a tour as a battle captain...
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Netflix raised its prices; we kept binge-watching anywayJan 23, 2018 12:00 am - Our growing appetite for binge-watching cannot be stopped - even by price hikes from Netflix. The streaming media giant reported far more new subscribers than analysts e...