Articles filed under Washington Post
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Much of the chocolate you buy starts with child laborJun 09, 2019 6:00 am - GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they r...
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Fewer kids are riding and buying bicycles, and the industry is worriedJun 09, 2019 6:00 am - Children's bicycle manufacturers and retailers are bracing for rough times ahead as market research shows fewer kids are riding bikes, while prices for cycling equipment...
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Seven updates from Apple that matter to most of usJun 08, 2019 6:23 am - Apple is ready to embrace the dark side - and kill off the app that started it all. "Dark mode" for iPhones and the end of iTunes are among the cornucopia of updates App...
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As Walmart turns to robots, it's the human workers who feel like machinesJun 08, 2019 6:19 am - To Walmart executives, the Auto-C self-driving floor scrubber is the future of retail automation - a multimillion-dollar bet that advanced robots will optimize operation...
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Analysis: Big Tech is having a terrible week. Things will only get worse.Jun 08, 2019 6:18 am - After years of operating largely free of federal regulation, our tech overlords are now firmly in the regulatory spotlight. And for them, the worst is almost certainly y...
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Analysis: Apple, Facebook and Google have lost the monopoly argumentJun 08, 2019 6:00 am - The future of the tech industry was once decided by messianic entrepreneurs (assisted by venture capitalists and assorted Silicon Valley boosters) pumping out their serm...
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How Peru used balloons to restore internet after massive earthquakeJun 08, 2019 6:00 am - One of the biggest challenges in the wake of any disaster is restoring communication networks. When Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in 2017, the Cajun Navy relied on ap...
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Here's how tariffs will raise prices at some of America's best-known companiesJun 07, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - In the past year, President Donald Trump's increasingly combative approach to global trade has sent American companies scrambling. What started with tariffs...
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'I hate elephants': Behind the backlash against Botswana's giantsJun 07, 2019 1:00 am - CHOBE ENCLAVE, Botswana - For as long as they can remember, farmers in Botswana lived mostly at peace with elephants, whose knowing eyes and playful kids made them seem ...
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With Craig Kimbrel a Cub, remember: World Series champs build their bullpens on the flyJun 07, 2019 1:00 am - Last Oct. 28, when the gate to the visitor's bullpen at Dodger Stadium swung open before the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5 of the World Series, the pitcher enteri...