Articles filed under Washington Post
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Largest counties now adding jobs faster than small townsJun 05, 2016 7:17 am - There was a time in America when economic expansions bore more fruit for small towns than big cities. That time was the 1990s: After the 1991 recession, according to cen...
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Why you should delete the online accounts you don't use anymore - right nowJun 05, 2016 7:16 am - Despite falling out of vogue years ago, MySpace - that old precursor to Facebook - still has details on more user accounts than the United States has people. And now a h...
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Pope Francis met with a bunch of YouTubers; here's what he told themJun 05, 2016 7:14 am - The Internet loves Pope Francis - even if the 79-year-old leader of the Catholic church has admitted to being a technology "dinosaur." For the most part, the pope has pr...
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Why 70 percent of kids quit sports by age 13Jun 05, 2016 7:10 am - According to a poll from the National Alliance for Youth Sports, around 70 percent of kids in the United States stop playing organized sports by the age of 13 because "i...
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What are we doing online? Top findings from an exhaustive study of the InternetJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, released her 21st annual report on the biggest trends in technology and the Internet on Wednesday....
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Landlord said 'like' me on Facebook or get evictedJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - How far will a business go for a Facebook like? Tenants in a Salt Lake City apartment building found a notice taped to their doors last week instructing them to "like" t...
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Even cowboy jobs may not be safe from robotsJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - An Australian professor is developing a robot to monitor the health of grazing livestock, a development that could bring big changes to a profession that's relied largel...
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Google's privacy and security settings are getting a little more user-friendlyJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - What's the first thing you would do if you lost your smartphone? According to Google, the answer for most people is to do a simple Google search for their own name. That...
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Everything you think you know about AI is wrongJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - Robots are coming for our jobs. Terminators will soon murder us all. There is no escape. Resistance is futile. These doom-laden predictions probably sound familiar to an...
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App reviews: Google's Gboard, SpacesJun 04, 2016 7:18 am - Gboard One of Google's latest products isn't exactly groundbreaking, but it could make your texting life easier. Gboard is a new Google-made keyboard with several f...