Articles filed under Washington Post
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New strategy for makers of self-driving cars: Slow down, shut upOct 20, 2018 1:15 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. - Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down....
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A day in the life of Pepper the robotOct 20, 2018 1:07 am - WASHINGTON - On a gloomy October morning, Smithsonian staff members at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden woke up one of their employees from an office and headed...
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Roboticist trains AI to write fortunes - and things get weirdOct 20, 2018 1:00 am - When Alexander Reben began feeding thousands of inspirational expressions he scraped off the Internet into an algorithm he designed, he wasn't sure what might happen nex...
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Small privacy change for Google leads to big disruptions for startupsOct 20, 2018 1:00 am - Google's move to cut developers off from scanning people's Gmail for ad targeting might go unnoticed by most users - but it could upend a whole segment of apps, highligh...
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Adobe Photoshop is coming to Apple's iPadOct 20, 2018 1:00 am - Adobe Inc. unveiled a new generation of Photoshop that will be available on Apple Inc.'s iPad for the first time, signaling an acceleration in the software maker's drive...
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How Mega Millions and Powerball manipulated the odds to create monster jackpotsOct 19, 2018 1:00 am - They don't buy lottery tickets. Not habitually, anyway. But the jackpot chasers typically emerge when they see the Mega Millions prize tick up and up and up, and they fi...
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Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of TrumpOct 19, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Donal...
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Want to trick yourself into more exercise? Yeah, good luck with thatOct 18, 2018 11:00 pm - Want to fool yourself into more exercise? Yeah, good luck with that
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Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expressionOct 18, 2018 1:00 am - A note from Karen Attiah, Washington Post Global Opinions editor: I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi's translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported...
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Trump uses 'Pocahontas' as a slur. Here's her sad history.Oct 18, 2018 1:00 am - The tug of war over Pocahontas - the Indian chief's daughter who was born on the James River and died on the Thames River - has been going on for more than 400 years. Si...