Articles filed under Washington Post
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Is it OK to tell an Alzheimer's patient a white lie?Mar 31, 2018 7:00 am - A reader dealing with the strains of a family member suffering from Alzheimer's raised this interesting question: "Our father always stressed how important it was to tel...
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Facebook, longtime friend of data brokers, becomes their stiffest competitionMar 31, 2018 1:11 am - Facebook said late Wednesday it would stop data brokers from helping advertisers target people with ads, severing one of the key methods marketers used to link users' Fa...
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This retailer built a $33M business on Amazon and pickleballMar 31, 2018 1:10 am - Little Alexandria, Virginia-based Amify is the 21st-century version of the thousands of enterprises that thrived around the railroads 150 years ago. Meatpackers, farmers...
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Analysis: How Zuckerberg's Facebook is like Gutenberg's printing pressMar 31, 2018 1:08 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. - When historian Niall Ferguson moved from Harvard to Stanford two years ago, he was struck by Silicon Valley's indifference to history. The hubris he ...
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Cinematic VR could be a game changer - if anyone will pay for itMar 31, 2018 1:07 am - LOS ANGELES - The Westfield Century City mall runs a dozen of the latest blockbusters at its modern movie theater here, but recently some of the most cutting-edge entert...
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Commentary: Is it time to put self-driving cars in the slow lane?Mar 31, 2018 1:00 am - A self-driving Uber car fatally crashed into a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, tragically illustrating the fears that some of us have long held about the dangers of these ...
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Commentary: Russia, China and Silicon Valley have censorship in commonMar 31, 2018 1:00 am - Russia's recent declaration that it is prepared to operate its own internet should the West cut off access has struck some observers as more Putinesque bellicosity, whic...
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Mastodon - The social network that aspires to #deletefacebook for goodMar 31, 2018 1:00 am - It's been a terrible few weeks for Facebook, with policymakers and users alike demanding answers from the social network over its Cambridge Analytica fiasco, in which th...
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In California, your coffee is going to have a cancer warning labelMar 30, 2018 1:00 am - Bad news, coffee drinkers: A California judge has ruled that coffee companies across the state will have to carry a cancer warning label because of a carcinogen that is ...
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How Loyola will cash in on Final Four runMar 30, 2018 1:00 am - CHICAGO - In the wee bookstore at the entry of Damen Student Center, the table out front boasted piles of Final Four T-shirts on Tuesday, as if to suggest that Loyola Ch...