Articles filed under Washington Post
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A stretch of interstate reserved for driverless cars?Sep 24, 2016 7:18 am - If you have nightmares about robots taking over the world, here's something that might really scare you: some tech industry veterans in Seattle want to ban human drivers...
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Silicon Valley venture capitalists pay the highest rent in the U.S.Sep 24, 2016 7:16 am - Aydin Senkut started his venture capital firm Felicis Ventures in San Francisco a decade ago. Five funds and more than $430 million later, Senkut is ready to open an off...
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This drone has arms and could lift a toddler. (Don't try this at home.)Sep 24, 2016 7:16 am - A Japanese firm has built an aerial drone with two arms and hawklike talons that is capable of lifting objects that weigh as much as 22 pounds. That's roughly the weight...
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Apple wants to patent the bag you carry out of the storeSep 24, 2016 7:15 am - Apple is known for challenging the conventions of personal technology with its computers, smartphones and tablets. But the company's latest innovation may not be the wat...
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Twitter to take photos, GIFs, videos out of character-limit countSep 24, 2016 7:15 am - Twitter announced recently that media extras such as photos, GIFs, and videos along with quoted tweets and user polls will no longer "use up" the 140-character limit per...
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Some users report hearing a hissing noise coming from iPhone 7Sep 24, 2016 7:12 am - Several iPhone 7 users have reported via Twitter that they are hearing a hissing noise coming from the device while it's being used. Stephen Hackett, a writer for the bl...
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AT&T wants to make every telephone pole a wireless hotspotSep 24, 2016 7:11 am - AT&T says it plans to start testing a technology next year that could ultimately blanket the country in ultrafast wireless internet - without the need for expensive cell...
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Women in Hollywood get less screen time than men. New technology could help fix that.Sep 24, 2016 7:10 am - Engineers have created software that parses through every scene, line and frame in a movie to determine exactly how much screen and speech time female characters are giv...
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Trump vs. Clinton: A debate fact-check cheat sheetSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - Presidential candidates rarely come to the debates with fresh facts. Instead, they rely on claims that have been scattered in their stump speeches for many months — clai...
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App reviews: Prisma, PruneSep 23, 2016 7:19 am - Prisma Your snapshots are obviously works of art all on their own - but do you ever want to give them a little boost? Prisma takes the concept of a filter and amps ...