Articles filed under Washington Post
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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...
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Amazon to ban sales of Apple TV, ChromecastOct 03, 2015 5:38 am - Amazon.com said Thursday that it will no longer sell streaming media devices that don't support its Prime Video, including Apple TV and Google's Chromecast. The move is ...
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Sprint is making its biggest gamble since trying to buy T-MobileOct 03, 2015 1:00 am - Sprint says it won't be putting any money toward an intensely watched auction for wireless airwaves next year, in what amounts to the company's biggest gamble since it t...
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What one writer learned from a hard day's night in a sleep labSep 28, 2015 5:45 am - It's 1 in the morning and I've been in bed for a few hours now. Maybe it's the few drops of caffeine I mistakenly drank earlier in the day. Or perhaps it's the 26 wires ...