Articles filed under Washington Post
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Hands off my data! 15 default privacy settings you should change right nowJun 09, 2018 1:16 am - On the internet, the devil's in the defaults. You're not reading all those updated data policies flooding your inbox. You probably haven't even looked for your privacy s...
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5G: What is it good for?Jun 09, 2018 1:11 am - 5G, or 5th Generation Mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You've probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the dis...
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How Apple is addressing smartphone addiction (and other tidbits from WWDC 2018)Jun 09, 2018 1:10 am - Apple is trying to make us love our iPhones a little less. Helping consumers and parents combat addiction and encourage healthier relationships with technology was on Ap...
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Experts grade Apple's, Google's new tools to fight smartphone addictionJun 09, 2018 1:00 am - Apple this week finally showed off its solution to help us use our iPhones less often. At its Worldwide Developers Conference, the company presented more advanced parent...
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Apple's $1 trillion chase: Unprecedented? Try totally logical.Jun 09, 2018 1:00 am - Mind-boggling. Unprecedented. And here's another way of describing Apple's ascent toward $1 trillion: totally logical. Not to take anything away from Apple, which at alm...
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Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder whose engineering paved the way for Pong, dies at 81Jun 09, 2018 1:00 am - Ted Dabney, a largely self-taught electrical engineer who co-founded Atari and - by devising a way to move objects on a television screen - played a crucial role in crea...
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Analysis: Facebook controversies could spark support for privacy bills in CongressJun 09, 2018 1:00 am - Facebook may soon face a reckoning in Washington. The social media giant has been in an uncomfortable spotlight for months since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but Con...
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What's a seven-letter word for money at the New York Times? PuzzlesJun 09, 2018 1:00 am - The New York Times' online puzzle offering has surpassed 400,000 paying subscribers, roughly double the number from two years ago. In June 2016, the Times had 212,000 on...
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Flu killed 172 kids this season, the highest death toll in nearly a decadeJun 09, 2018 1:00 am - Flu killed 172 children between October and May, making this season one of the deadliest since federal health authorities began tracking pediatric deaths 14 years ago, a...
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Facebook changed a setting and 14 million users' private posts were made publicJun 08, 2018 1:00 am - Facebook has another apology for you. The company on Thursday asked 14 million users to review posts made between May 18 and May 22. During that time, a bug in its syste...