Articles filed under Washington Post
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How to track where Google's tracking youAug 18, 2018 1:15 am - Turning off the location tracking on your phone isn't enough to stop Google from receiving any information about where you are, an Associated Press investigation reveale...
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How close are we to the end of the gaming console?Aug 18, 2018 1:10 am - The measuring stick for success between the big three gaming companies of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo has long been a question of how many consoles they've sold. But al...
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Analysis: Is Tesla a cash cow, or simply a handful of beans?Aug 18, 2018 1:07 am - It is an axiom of market capitalism that things are worth, in terms of money, what people will pay for them. But this seemingly straightforward matter, known as price di...
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Fax machines may be vulnerable to hackers, new report findsAug 18, 2018 1:05 am - The fax machine is widely considered to be a dinosaur of interoffice communications, but it may also present a vulnerable point where hackers can infiltrate an organizat...
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What will it take to get us excited about smartphones again?Aug 18, 2018 1:05 am - Another autumn is fast approaching, and with it a new crop of smartphones. But if excitement over them seems a little muted this year, it's not just you. A PCMag survey ...
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CEO says he's rethinking the core of how Twitter worksAug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn't enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and fal...
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Cortana and Alexa are now friends. So how does that work?Aug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Amazon.com and Microsoft have officially set up the friendship between their two voice assistants, Alexa and Cortana, a year after announcing the partnership to expand t...
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Another sign of hard times for teachers? They make up nearly 10 percent of Airbnb hosts.Aug 18, 2018 1:00 am - Nearly 1 in 10 hosts who rent out their apartments, homes and spaces on Airbnb are teachers, according to a new survey by the company, another possible indicator of the ...
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EpiPen shortage raises alarm for parents as kids head back to schoolAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Jim Davis, a parent of an 8-year-old daughter who has a peanut allergy, was startled to learn that his Walgreens pharmacy did not have a single EpiPen available for her ...
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Abe Lincoln's library faces so much debt it's considering selling his stuffAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Sometimes, even Abraham Lincoln needs a GoFundMe campaign. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, which supports Lincoln's museum in Springfield has found ...