Articles filed under Washington Post
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Mortgage market now dominated by non-bank lendersMar 05, 2017 6:12 am - Most borrowers, whether they are purchasing property or refinancing their home, focus on their mortgage rate and loan terms rather than the type of lender they choose. Y...
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Warren Buffett: Bad advice has cost investors more than $100BMar 05, 2017 6:10 am - Billionaire Warren Buffett has some wise words for investors: Stop throwing money away on bad advice. In his annual letter to shareholders, the Berkshire Hathaway chief ...
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Review: Nintendo Switch isn't quite the mobile console we'd hoped for - but it's closeMar 04, 2017 6:19 am - Nintendo is taking a big risk with the launch of the $300 Switch, which follows the company's unsuccessful Wii U - a two-screened console concept that failed to capture ...
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Are our kids being shaped by know-it-all voice assistants?Mar 04, 2017 6:18 am - Kids adore their new robot siblings. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are e...
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App reviews: Curiosity, TravelEnvyMar 04, 2017 6:15 am - Curiosity This app, which is made by a company that spun out of Discovery Communications, takes the joy of learning and distills it into a form that can suit even t...
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Twitter users can now filter 'egg' accounts from notificationsMar 04, 2017 6:15 am - Twitter announced a bunch of mostly iterative changes Wednesday in its fight against abuse. But one was particularly welcome to users who have ever experienced an onslau...
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OK, technology holdouts: Enough is enoughMar 04, 2017 6:15 am - Even as fanatic customers can be counted on to line up outside the Apple store for the latest iPhone, there are still millions of Americans who don't use a smartphone at...
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Analysis: Twitter tries age-old punishment - the timeoutMar 04, 2017 6:15 am - Twitter quietly introduced a new punishment for rule breakers a couple of weeks ago: the timeout. "We've detected some potentially abusive behavior from your account," T...
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Sometimes you really do need to keep your kid home from schoolMar 04, 2017 6:13 am - In a perfect world, kids would never get sick, and they'd never miss a day of school. But it's not a perfect world. Kids get sick all the time, and they love to share t...
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Soldier-turned-robotics-CEO brings Silicon Valley approach to defense marketMar 04, 2017 6:13 am - Shahar Abuhazira knows about dark places. He had the dicey assignment of crawling into tunnels to find terrorists as an infantry officer with the Israeli Defense Forces....