Articles filed under Washington Post
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How Facebook fought fake news about FacebookJul 13, 2019 6:22 am - A month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a rumor spread on Facebook. People were sharing a viral gimmick familiar to email spammers: Copy and paste this messa...
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4 tech start-ups looking to disrupt the affordable housing industryJul 13, 2019 6:12 am - The United States is in the grips of an affordable housing crisis with many people of low and moderate incomes struggling to find inexpensive places to live. Until recen...
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Wildlife traffickers use Facebook, Instagram to find black-market buyersJul 13, 2019 6:10 am - Ali Ahamed's black satchel was overflowing with turtles, their tiny heads poking out. Just a few feet away, on the hotel room floor, roughly 20 larger turtles with dark ...
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Ruthless, 'superhuman' poker-playing computer program makes elite players foldJul 13, 2019 6:08 am - Jason Les, one of the world's premier poker players, was representing his species when he faced off in May against a computer program named Pluribus. The game was multip...
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Top Tesla investor tries again to get Elon Musk to fine-tune strategyJul 13, 2019 6:05 am - For the third time in the past year, Tesla's largest outside shareholder is openly advocating for Elon Musk to fine-tune his approach to communicating with the market. T...
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AirDrop requests have become Gen Z's version of passing notesJul 13, 2019 6:00 am - On the second day of sociology class, Emily Choi was interrupted from her mid-class social media scroll by an unexpected buzz. It was an AirDrop request that froze her p...
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Commentary: Internet 101 should be a required classJul 13, 2019 6:00 am - If Americans agree on anything these days, it's that our schools could be much better, and that internet culture is harming our children. I have a simple proposal to add...
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Google employs humans to listen to some voice-assistant recordingsJul 13, 2019 6:00 am - Contractors employed by Google listen to recordings of conversations customers have with their Google voice-activated devices, the search giant said Thursday, adding to ...
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A girl licked a tongue depressor at a clinic and put it back. Her mother now faces a felony charge.Jul 12, 2019 1:00 am - In the grainy cellphone video, a hand lifts the lid off a clear jar filled with tongue depressors and playfully swirls the light-colored wooden sticks around. "PLEASE DO...
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Mueller offers to delay testimony one week to give lawmakers more time for questionsJul 12, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Former special counsel Robert Mueller is offering to postpone his congressional testimony by one week to give lawmakers more time to question him about his ...