Articles filed under Washington Post
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Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click 'buy'Aug 31, 2019 6:15 am - Amazon has introduced a feature that pitches its own private-label brands right before customers add rival products to their shopping carts, illustrating the e-commerce ...
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Google wants to help you catch your grammar mistakesAug 31, 2019 6:12 am - There, their, they're. If you stumble over your grammar, take comfort in this: tech companies are supercharging their digital grammar editors with artificial intelligenc...
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Video game 'loot boxes' are going away and it could crush Rocket League's black marketAug 31, 2019 6:00 am - The developers behind Rocket League are preparing to rid the game of its loot boxes, a system for randomized in-game purchases critics say amounts to gambling. While mos...
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Before you install security cameras in your home, check the lawAug 31, 2019 6:00 am - Enterprising homeowners are no longer using security cameras and video doorbells simply to spot criminal activity track deliveries. They're keeping tabs on their pets, t...
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Tesla owner wanted to control her Model 3, so she implanted a valet key in her armAug 31, 2019 6:00 am - Last year, after placing an order for Tesla's recently unveiled Model 3, Amie Dansby began to ponder an ambitious idea. Because of its many high tech features, she knew ...
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Why so many of your favorite YouTube videos are secretly infomercialsAug 31, 2019 6:00 am - The Try Guys are playing Jenga Truth or Dare, dressed in animal onesies and having a great time for their 6 million YouTube fans. On the surface, it's a typical video fr...
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Google researchers uncover iPhone hack tied to malicious websitesAug 30, 2019 1:00 am - Security researchers at Google uncovered a "sustained" - at least two years - and indiscriminate campaign to hack iPhones through certain websites, allowing attackers to...
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Woman gave birth alone in jail cell after cries for help were ignored, lawsuit saysAug 30, 2019 1:00 am - Diana Sanchez screamed as she writhed on the small bed inside her cell at the Denver County Jail. Gripping the thin mattress with one hand, she tried to use the other to...
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He played the same lottery numbers for decades. Finally he won - $60M.Aug 29, 2019 1:00 am - He waited nearly 10 months to claim his lottery winnings because, he said, he felt so overwhelmed by the size of his luck. Bon Truong, of Edmonton, Alberta, had been pla...
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A doctor plotted to kill an attorney by secretly injecting him with fentanyl, the FBI saysAug 29, 2019 1:00 am - The federal agents came in the predawn darkness on Friday to a Michigan home. They had an urgent message for Mike McCulloch, a veteran attorney: His life was in danger. ...