Articles filed under Washington Post
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Is the 10,000-steps goal more myth than science? Study seeks fitness truthsJun 19, 2016 7:00 am - Much of what we know about exercise remains a guess, based mostly on experiments from lab treadmills or ideas from often unreliable details recorded in people's diaries ...
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Queasiness and other unsettled gut feelings are normal signs of agingJun 18, 2016 1:00 pm - A friend complains that she's often queasy when she wakes up in the morning. Another mentions that he cannot eat fast food anymore without regretting it for hours. I lea...
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Startup will help landlords, employers mine intimate data from your Facebook pageJun 18, 2016 7:18 am - There's a scene in the dystopian scifi novel "Ready Player One" in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered o...
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App review: SeatGeek is just the ticketJun 18, 2016 7:17 am - SeatGeek is an event ticket marketplace and aggregator that collects and sells tickets from third-party vendors, such as Fanxchange, UberSeat and AJ Tickets, kind of lik...
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6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, study saysJun 18, 2016 7:17 am - On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of "lorem ipsum" text under a frightening headline: "Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the hea...
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App reviews: Sprightly, TodayJun 18, 2016 7:17 am - Sprightly Microsoft's Sprightly is a simple app for those who want to make something more than a cut-and-paste job for fliers and cards. The app gives you a handful...
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What the world needs now is a dinosaur emojiJun 18, 2016 7:14 am - The Unicode Consortium will soon release 72 new emoji into the world. None of them is a dinosaur. Dominik Schwarz, a self-described "internet rando" with a deep and abid...
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The self-retweet has officially arrivedJun 18, 2016 7:13 am - This is how to retweet yourself on Twitter: Go to one of your own tweets, click the little loopy "retweet" button, choose whether to quote yourself or simply retweet you...
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Virtual reality revolutionizes the roller coaster thrillJun 18, 2016 7:07 am - Before the new Superman: Ride of Steel Virtual Reality Roller Coaster takes off, riders strap on their headsets, and the cityscape of Metropolis materializes before them...
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US just took one step closer to privatizing a core part of the InternetJun 18, 2016 7:05 am - Every time you type "Google.com" into your browser, what you get is a search engine used by billions. What you don't see? A complicated string of actions kicking into hi...