Articles filed under Washington Post
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Analysis: Microsoft's plot to kill passwords can't happen soon enoughFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Microsoft is trying to kill the password, and it's about time. This week, the company said the next test version of its stripped-down Windows 10 S operating system will ...
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Meet the teen who created an app to feel safer while walking aloneFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Medha Gupta sometimes felt uneasy making the 20-minute walk from the corner where the school bus dropped her off to her home in Herndon, Virginia, - especially during th...
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Prison for 'e-waste' recycling innovator trying to extend life of PCs?Feb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Eric Lundgren is obsessed with recycling electronics. He built an electric car out of recycled parts that far outdistanced a Tesla in a test. He launched what he thinks ...
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How Apple plans to root out bugs, revamp iPhone softwareFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Apple's annual software upgrade this fall will offer users plenty of new features: enabling a single set of apps to work across iPhones, iPads and Macs, a Digital Health...
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What Google's Chrome ad blocker means for users, advertisersFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Google, already one of the dominant players in the online advertising world, may soon have even more power in that space. It is now taking on the challenge of determinin...
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In the Olympic reality show, the co-stars are named 'Mom' and 'Dad'Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The mom already had hugged the dad, and already had received congratulations from people to her right and her left and behind her, and then sh...
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Jacobellis still doesn't have Olympic gold, placing fourth in snowboard crossFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - BONGPYEONG, South Korea - All around her, right before the finish line, there was chaos. Later, she would say she saw shadows all around her. She saw other riders in her...
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Curling fan etiquette 101: Babies, yes. Music, no. Mumbling, yes. Chanting, no.Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Does the world, in all its variety, contain any curling hooligans? Are there ever curling riots or, at the very least, episodic bursts of curlin...
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Daly can leave skeleton at peace this timeFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea - The night before what will probably be the final runs of his Olympic skeleton career placed him 16th in the men's skeleton final Friday, Ame...
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Like many great champions, Mikaela Shiffrin is compelling, and human, in defeatFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Mikaela Shiffrin, paragon of success, is a mysterious treasure, a wondrous skier who exists for us to marvel but not understand. At her best, ...