Articles filed under Washington Post
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How Social Security penalizes working womenNov 01, 2015 7:01 am - Most people think Social Security operates on a simple principle. While you work, you pay taxes. The more you pay, the fatter the checks you cash once your retire. But t...
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Why home buying was a bust for many African Americans during the boomNov 01, 2015 5:48 am - By now, it is no secret that the housing bust hit black homebuyers harder than whites. But a surprising new study shows that many new black homeowners also lost substant...
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Millennials' top competition for condos might be their parentsNov 01, 2015 5:48 am - Millennials have tough new competition for the condominiums and apartments heating up the nation's housing market: Mom and Dad. Roughly 10,000 baby boomers are retiring ...
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Rates expected to rise for key Affordable Care Act plansNov 01, 2015 5:18 am - The prices for a popular and important group of health plans sold through the federal insurance exchange will climb by an average of 7.5 percent for the coming year, a j...
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New Squad app is Tinder for friendsOct 31, 2015 7:12 am - Every day, it seems like there's a new app billing itself as the Tinder for something other than dating. There's UPTOP, the Tinder of real estate. Zola, where you can sw...
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'Leon' lets you play adventure game on TwitterOct 31, 2015 7:11 am - Washington Post A very fun choose-your-own adventure game - playable entirely on Twitter - went live last week, complete with pixel art, secret hints, and lots of surpr...
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Google officially embraces the podcastOct 31, 2015 6:43 am - Google will now officially support podcasts for Android, through its Google Play store. According to an official post from Google, the company is launching an official p...
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What is 5G and why should lawmakers care?Oct 31, 2015 6:33 am - WASHINGTON - A decision last week by the FCC to open large swathes of high-frequency radio spectrum for use in next generation wireless networks marks a turning point in...
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GIFs are for everybody nowOct 31, 2015 6:25 am - Instagram's new Boomerang feature isn't a GIF-maker, but it thinks like one: The tool makes one-second videos out of a burst of photos. The Boomerang videos loop indefin...
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Astronaut Sloth conquered the Internet; now he's going to the moonOct 31, 2015 1:00 am - We've sent monkeys to space, cats and dogs to space, rabbits and jellyfish and fruit flies to space. Now, thanks to Reddit and Lunar Mission One, a sloth in a spacesuit ...