Articles filed under Washington Post
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Welcome to the first holiday season without Toys R UsOct 21, 2018 1:00 am - One week before Thanksgiving, FAO Schwarz's signature toy soldiers will stand at the ready to ring in the holiday season. Three years after closing its Manhattan flagshi...
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Drugmakers may have to disclose prices of medicine in television adsOct 21, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The nation's top health official proposed on Monday that pharmaceutical companies be required to include the list price of medicines in television advertise...
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Startup Humu wants to help people act more human at workOct 21, 2018 1:00 am - Google's former head of its "people operations" has a new startup, and one of its goals is a lofty one: To make software that helps managers and co-workers act more huma...
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Nasdaq CEO is on a mission - for the little guyOct 21, 2018 1:00 am - Nasdaq chief executive Adena Friedman is wrapped in a woody Washington steakhouse on a steamy August afternoon, slamming her fist on a table over frustration that a vibr...
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Research shows saunas can be good for your healthOct 20, 2018 8:00 am - Finns are known for their ancient sauna habit, which dates back 10,000 years to the use of earthen pits. Nowadays their tradition is to toast themselves in a tent or sma...
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Essay: I fell for Facebook fake news. Here's why millions of you did, too.Oct 20, 2018 1:15 am - The Facebook video is nuts, but I can't tear my eyes away. A plane, struggling in a huge storm, does a 360-degree flip before safely landing and letting out terrified pa...
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New strategy for makers of self-driving cars: Slow down, shut upOct 20, 2018 1:15 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. - Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down....
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A day in the life of Pepper the robotOct 20, 2018 1:07 am - WASHINGTON - On a gloomy October morning, Smithsonian staff members at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden woke up one of their employees from an office and headed...
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Roboticist trains AI to write fortunes - and things get weirdOct 20, 2018 1:00 am - When Alexander Reben began feeding thousands of inspirational expressions he scraped off the Internet into an algorithm he designed, he wasn't sure what might happen nex...
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Small privacy change for Google leads to big disruptions for startupsOct 20, 2018 1:00 am - Google's move to cut developers off from scanning people's Gmail for ad targeting might go unnoticed by most users - but it could upend a whole segment of apps, highligh...