Articles filed under Washington Post
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What Apple's revamped privacy policy website means for youOct 03, 2015 6:38 am - Fire up the new Apple News service for the first time on your iPhone, and it'll ask for your favorite topics and news outlets. Use it over time, and you'll find that it ...
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Twitter said to be considering plus-size tweet, above 140-character limitOct 03, 2015 6:37 am - In August, Twitter announced that it was ditching the 140-character limit on direct messages, the so-called "private side" of the social media giant that lets users comm...
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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on 'Yelp for people'Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple - basically ...
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Don't feel bad if you fell for the Facebook copyright hoaxOct 03, 2015 6:36 am - We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rum...
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Apple sells 13 million iPhones in their opening weekendOct 03, 2015 6:34 am - Did you buy a new iPhone this weekend? You were not alone. Apple announced on Monday that it had sold a whopping 13 million of its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in their first w...
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Google announces new Nexus phones, a new tablet and lots of updatesOct 03, 2015 6:33 am - Google showed off a wide range of new devices and services on Tuesday in a jam-packed news conference that revealed its fall lineup of products. Here is a quick rundown ...
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Why it's so hard to kill Facebook privacy hoaxesOct 03, 2015 6:32 am - Facebook privacy hoaxes just won't die. It seems like every few months, some extended family member or high school "friend" will post a big block of legalese-style text,...
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Billboards linking Tinder to STDs are latest battleground in online dating warsOct 03, 2015 6:00 am - Just blocks away from the Tinder headquarters in Los Angeles, a large pink and purple billboard encapsulates much of what critics don't like about the dating app. Two pa...
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App reviews: Two Dots, PaperOct 03, 2015 6:00 am - Two Dots is a puzzle game - the follow-up to Betaworks' other game, Dots - in which players are asked to join strings of colored spots on a grid. But it's so much more t...
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Smack talk is cheap: .sucks domains are going for 99 cents a yearOct 03, 2015 5:38 am - We've all heard the stories about big, famous people like Taylor Swift and Mark Zuckerberg buying up Web addresses ending in. sucks. But now low-level peons like you and...