Articles filed under Washington Post
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You can now look up ER wait times, hospital noise levels and nursing home fines on YelpAug 16, 2015 7:00 am - Yelp is adding a ton of health care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access to government information on hospitals, nursing homes a...
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How Arby's came to embrace Jon Stewart's jabsAug 16, 2015 7:00 am - If you've been a loyal watcher of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" in recent years, you know the show has been serving up a steady diet of jokes about Arby's. "It's lik...
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Why CVS is switching from Viagra to CialisAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - The news that next year CVS Health will drop coverage of Viagra, the little blue pill that spawned a multibillion-dollar industry of erectile dysfunction drugs, would se...
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Origins of Trump's luxury empire lie in father's more blue-collar buildingsAug 15, 2015 11:00 pm - Trump Village, unlike every other property that famously bears that brand, was not named by - or for - the presidential candidate currently upending the Republican Party...
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How doxing went from a cheap hacker trick to a presidential campaign tacticAug 15, 2015 7:40 am - When Donald Trump stood on a South Carolina stage three weeks ago and reeled off Senator Lindsey Graham's phone number to a tittering audience, he no doubt believed he w...
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Democrats think they've figured out how to turn the Uber wars to their advantageAug 15, 2015 7:35 am - WASHINGTON - At a time when fast-growing companies like Uber are giving struggling American workers a fresh source of income - but not necessarily steady or reliable emp...
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Why you shouldn't use your fingerprints as passwordsAug 15, 2015 7:34 am - Ever since Apple introduced TouchID for iPhones, more and more smartphones feature fingerprint scanners. And that has some security researchers worried. "If you leak a p...
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7 quick facts about Sundar Pichai, Google's new CEOAug 15, 2015 7:33 am - Google is waking up to a new chief executive serving within a new corporate structure, one that makes the search engine business a subsidiary of a holding company called...
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A simple guide to buying cellphone service in 2015Aug 15, 2015 7:31 am - When I say "AT&T" and "Verizon," what comes to mind? Most of us might say a cellphone company. But the truth is, companies like T-Mobile and Sprint are really in busi...
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How the 'right to be forgotten' could take over the American Internet, tooAug 15, 2015 7:00 am - 'Eraser button' law in works in Illinois