Articles filed under Washington Post
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How to use Twitter without going insaneJan 23, 2016 6:38 am - Over the past few weeks and months (and years, really) there have been a series of essays/think pieces about the growing irrelevance or uselessness of Twitter. Google "q...
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The brief life and sudden death of Stolen!, the app for trading peopleJan 23, 2016 6:37 am - Stolen!, the addicting game app that in its few weeks of life earned such accolades as "problematic" and "a privacy minefield" - that referred to itself in its own App S...
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Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?Jan 23, 2016 6:36 am - Editor's note: Andrew Lih is an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of the book "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Cr...
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Review: This app has a clue about fashionJan 23, 2016 6:35 am - 1995 was a pivotal year in American fashion: Jennifer Aniston debuted "The Rachel" haircut on "Friends"; Johnnie Cochran taught us the importance of a well-fitting pair ...
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It's been six months since the Ashley Madison hack - has anything changed?Jan 23, 2016 6:34 am - Six months ago today, a group of hackers calling themselves "The Impact Team" raided the user records and internal databases of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison. It...
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Having problems with your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus battery? Try this fixJan 23, 2016 6:33 am - Apple has confirmed a bug that iPhone 6s and 6s Plus users have been reporting for months: In certain cases, the battery indicator on the phones isn't accurate. Users on...
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Even Facebook can't help you have more than 150 real friendsJan 23, 2016 6:32 am - How many friends can you have? For years, science has said that the limit is about 150. Has Facebook - or other social networks, for that matter - managed to change anyt...
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10 iPhone tricks that will make your life easierJan 23, 2016 6:31 am - We spend a great deal of time with our smartphones. But while we all know how to swipe and tap our way through the menus, there are some shortcuts and features that many...
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Tainted medical scopes have sickened hundreds in US, Europe, Senate probe findsJan 23, 2016 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The number of patients harmed by contaminated medical scopes in recent years far exceeds previous estimates from federal regulators, according to findings i...
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You absolutely should not 'Be Like Bill,' the smarmy stick-figure meme eating FacebookJan 23, 2016 12:00 am - Bill does not forward chain emails. He does not take duck-faced selfies or click into schemes from Nigerian princes. He certainly doesn't play Candy Crush, Instagram his...