Articles filed under Washington Post
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If you hate telemarketers, you'll love this robot designed to waste their timeFeb 20, 2016 6:35 am - Anyone frustrated with telemarketers may have a new best friend. A Los Angeles man with an unusual passion for phone systems created a new robotic answering service that...
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Parents are clueless about teens' use of messaging appsFeb 20, 2016 6:33 am - Teenagers, a historically wily demographic, are increasingly moving their digital social lives from public sites where their parents hang out to smartphone messaging app...
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New apps to find a date - or dump oneFeb 20, 2016 6:32 am - Dating apps can be as plentiful and puzzling as Tinder profiles. Here's some help weeding through the offerings, courtesy of The Washington Post's Solo-ish blog: Happen ...
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Google is considering a role in the future of televisionFeb 20, 2016 6:31 am - Google is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box, according to a top executive for Google Fiber. Milo Medin, vice presid...
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Vanity, Prince protege turned evangelist, dead at 57Feb 15, 2016 10:00 pm - Like Prince's best songs, “Nasty Girl” - “Don't you wanna come with me/Do you think I'm a nasty girl?” and “If you ain't scared, take it out” and “I need seven inches or...
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Being frozen 'to death' saved this man's lifeFeb 15, 2016 5:00 am - Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the ear...
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Cold therapy's advocates are skating on thin iceFeb 15, 2016 4:58 am - Opportunities to chill aching or injured body parts have moved beyond the ice-pack aisle. A trendy technique called cryotherapy offers whole-body immersion in chambers ...
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How 'interlocks' stopped 1.8 cases of drunken drivingFeb 14, 2016 6:00 am - Automobile “interlocks” that require motorists to breathe into a tube before trying to start their cars have stopped 1.8 million cases of drunken driving nationwide, acc...
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Why some resignation letters go viralFeb 14, 2016 6:00 am - After years of staying put in jobs that may have been uninspiring, unrewarding or even flat-out soul-crushing, more Americans are choosing to say sayonara to their curre...
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You'd have to pay $2 million to give up your citizenship. Corporations? Nada.Feb 14, 2016 6:00 am - We all know about the famous Supreme Court decision that said corporations should be treated like people. It's too bad that this ruling doesn't apply to U.S. companies t...