Articles filed under Washington Post
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Letter from 'tech bro' draws sharp rebukes from San Francisco residentsFeb 20, 2016 6:40 am - Move over, Martin Shkreli. You now have competition for the title of America's most reviled millennial. The Internet exploded in outrage Wednesday after a San Francisco ...
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Google says it tracks personal student data, but not for advertisingFeb 20, 2016 6:39 am - What does Google do with the personal information it collects from children who use Google products at school? That has become a pressing question for privacy advocates ...
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The secret double meanings of emojiFeb 20, 2016 6:38 am - Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could automatically caption Instagrams with emoji. It was a chance to mess around w...
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App reviews: Forest, Music MemosFeb 20, 2016 6:37 am - Can't seem to put down your smartphone? Believe it or not, there's an app to help you. Forest is a sort of glorified timer: Users set an amount of time to focus on a tas...
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The Tupperware party that ate your Facebook feedFeb 20, 2016 6:36 am - What if the Bible was wrong? What if the End Times aren't all fire and famine and plagues across the land? What if, instead, it's just a giant Tupperware party? One we c...
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If you hate telemarketers, you'll love this robot designed to waste their timeFeb 20, 2016 6:35 am - Anyone frustrated with telemarketers may have a new best friend. A Los Angeles man with an unusual passion for phone systems created a new robotic answering service that...
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Parents are clueless about teens' use of messaging appsFeb 20, 2016 6:33 am - Teenagers, a historically wily demographic, are increasingly moving their digital social lives from public sites where their parents hang out to smartphone messaging app...
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New apps to find a date - or dump oneFeb 20, 2016 6:32 am - Dating apps can be as plentiful and puzzling as Tinder profiles. Here's some help weeding through the offerings, courtesy of The Washington Post's Solo-ish blog: Happen ...
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Google is considering a role in the future of televisionFeb 20, 2016 6:31 am - Google is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box, according to a top executive for Google Fiber. Milo Medin, vice presid...
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Vanity, Prince protege turned evangelist, dead at 57Feb 15, 2016 10:00 pm - Like Prince's best songs, “Nasty Girl” - “Don't you wanna come with me/Do you think I'm a nasty girl?” and “If you ain't scared, take it out” and “I need seven inches or...