Articles filed under Washington Post
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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...
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'Brilliant, fearless spirit': Fans and friends mourn Anthony Bourdain, dead at 61Jun 08, 2018 1:00 am - Anthony Bourdain, the chef who became a world-traveling storyteller, has died at age 61, according to CNN. He died in France while working on an episode of his CNN show,...
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'Fixer Upper' stars Chip and Joanna Gaines fined by EPA for lead paint violationsJun 07, 2018 1:00 am - For five seasons, Chip and Joanna Gaines were the darlings of HGTV with their popular home-improvement show "Fixer Upper." It turns out the Environmental Protection Agen...
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Getting a Chick-Fil-A franchise is harder than getting into HarvardJun 07, 2018 1:00 am - Three months into his new role as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt wanted to help his wife find a job, too. At Chick-fil-A. And so, as The Washi...
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A Texas man decapitated a rattlesnake. It bit him anyway and he nearly died, his wife says.Jun 07, 2018 1:00 am - For Jennifer and Jeremy Sutcliffe, it was supposed to be a relaxing day at home. A daughter and granddaughter were coming to visit. A family barbecue was planned for lat...