Articles filed under Washington Post
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The people taking care of American kids live in povertyJul 17, 2016 7:11 am - The people who are paid watch America's children tend to live in poverty. Nearly half receive some kind of government assistance: food stamps, welfare checks, Medicaid. ...
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Why don't millennials contribute to IRAs? They say they don't understand themJul 17, 2016 7:10 am - Individual Retirement Accounts can be an important part of your retirement plan, especially if you don't have an employer-sponsored 401(k) or 403(b). But the fifth annua...
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Inducing birth at 39 weeks may be good medicineJul 17, 2016 7:00 am - When doctors who treat pregnant women recently met to debate the best time to induce labor, they came up with a surprising answer: 39 weeks — three weeks earlier than cu...
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GOP convention aims to make Trump 'likable'Jul 17, 2016 1:00 am - CLEVELAND - As the gavel drops to begin the Republican National Convention here on Monday, the party will be focused on two goals: reintroducing Donald Trump as someone ...
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Analysis: Voice assistants are going to take over your whole lifeJul 16, 2016 7:23 am - Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant - you may think you're pretty familiar with these products today, but that's nothing compared to how close you'll be with them if ...
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Robot takes power walking to a new levelJul 16, 2016 7:22 am - The DURUS robot can walk more than a mile in man's shoes. A pair of size 13 Adidas sneakers, to be specific. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have tackle...
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Your phone is poised to get 10 times faster as FCC approves 5GJul 16, 2016 7:21 am - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler took a seat, grasped a set of controls, and guided an excavator - that happened to be 1,400 miles away. By moving ...
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Microsoft just won a huge legal victory on email privacyJul 16, 2016 7:19 am - A federal appeals court sided with Microsoft on Thursday in a case over whether the U.S. government could force the tech giant and other companies to hand over customer ...
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Essay: I despise 'Pokemon Go,' and there's no way I'm the only oneJul 16, 2016 7:15 am - For the first 48 hours of obsessive Pokemon-hunting, I tried to cultivate an aura of magnanimous chill. If my fiance planned to play the game through every meal and conv...
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Google's new emoji aim to combat gender inequalityJul 16, 2016 7:13 am - You can grow up to be anything you want to be - and now so can your emoji. Google unveiled a slew of female emoji characters Thursday that the tech giant says are design...