Articles filed under Washington Post
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The antidote for a cheap boss' broken promisesJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - Q: The director of our small office has always been cheap. He never pitches in for office birthday parties or pays for his share when we have food delivered. We've stopp...
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Loose change found in drawer grew to be multimillion-dollar collectionJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - In the late 1980s, William Morton-Smith, a Santa Barbara, California-based doctor, was rummaging through a garage that contained some of his deceased parents' belongings...
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Study: It can cost more for a checking account if you're black or LatinoJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - There is a cost to being black or brown when it comes to banking, according to a New America report released Thursday. It can be more expensive to obtain loans - as rece...
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Review: Amazon's Fire TV Cube wants to replace your remote (but Alexa gets a little tongue tied)Jun 23, 2018 1:15 am - In the beginning, there was a dial. Then man invented the television remote so he wouldn't have to get off the sofa. Then remote controls multiplied ... so man could nev...
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What does it mean to be a NASA astronaut in the age of Elon Musk and Richard Branson?Jun 23, 2018 1:09 am - HOUSTON - The journey to outer space for American astronauts for the past seven years has begun at a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan, deep in Central Asia. There, t...
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How should the feds regulate tech? The FTC wants to knowJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's privacy, competition and consumer protection cops plan to embark on a cross-country listening tour to gauge how academics and ave...
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Saboteur or whistleblower? Battle between Elon Musk and former Tesla employee turns uglyJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - Hours after Tesla had sued its former employee on charges he had stolen company secrets, and days after chief Elon Musk had called him a saboteur, the Silicon Valley aut...
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Apple iPhones will automatically share location data when you dial 911Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - Your iPhone will soon be able to share your location data automatically if you ever have to call 911, Apple announced Monday. The feature is designed to give first respo...
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How rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addictionJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - To understand why it's so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner's pigeons. In the 1950s, Skinner b...
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ABC orders spinoff of 'Roseanne' without Roseanne BarrJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - About three weeks after ABC abruptly canceled the revival of "Roseanne" following Roseanne Barr's racist tweet, the network has ordered a spinoff - without Barr attached...