Articles filed under Washington Post
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College residency rules sometimes force students to pay prohibitive costsOct 04, 2015 7:32 am - Housing and meal plans at many colleges and universities now cost more than tuition, and the dozens of colleges that require students to live in a campus dorm and eat in...
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Fidgeting might be good for your health, study suggestsOct 04, 2015 7:15 am - Good news, workplace fidgeters! A new study suggests that some healthy fidgeting throughout the day might be the key to surviving a sedentary life. Just don't go canceli...
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What IBM Watson can do for elite athletesOct 04, 2015 1:00 am - IBM Watson, which has done everything from compete on "Jeopardy!" to create recipes for a new Chef Watson cookbook, has a new career calling: becoming a sports coach for...
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How a new feature in Apple's iOS 9 could spike your data useOct 03, 2015 7:11 am - Keeping track of your data usage isn't always an easy thing to do. And now several iOS 9 users are questioning whether a feature in Apple's new operating system designed...
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Food poisoning: How three experts avoid getting sickOct 03, 2015 7:10 am - Kellogg Schwab, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, orders his hamburgers well-done. Before Kim Robien sets off on a trip, she...
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Review: The one killer feature that should've been in the latest iPhones, but probably never willOct 03, 2015 6:39 am - I've had a few days to play around with the iPhone 6S now, and by far the most engaging feature I've used has been Apple's Peek and Pop. Beyond the simple right-click ac...
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What Apple's revamped privacy policy website means for youOct 03, 2015 6:38 am - Fire up the new Apple News service for the first time on your iPhone, and it'll ask for your favorite topics and news outlets. Use it over time, and you'll find that it ...
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Twitter said to be considering plus-size tweet, above 140-character limitOct 03, 2015 6:37 am - In August, Twitter announced that it was ditching the 140-character limit on direct messages, the so-called "private side" of the social media giant that lets users comm...
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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on 'Yelp for people'Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple - basically ...
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Don't feel bad if you fell for the Facebook copyright hoaxOct 03, 2015 6:36 am - We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rum...