Month: January 2018

Facebook Messenger Kids is now available on the US Amazon Appstore for Amazon Fire tablets. Facebook Messenger Kids is specially designed for children under 13, who are too young to have their own Facebook account.  It lets them send messages and hold video calls with […]

Nebraska Is the First Republican State to Try to Save Net Neutrality http://ift.tt/2qS8e3P Submitted January 11, 2018 at 01:52PM by fishkopfjoe via reddit http://ift.tt/2qPhyW8

House Passes Bill To Renew NSA Internet Spying Tool Published on January 11, 2018 at 06:25PM Dustin Volz, reporting for Reuters: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy […]

Nebraska Is the First Republican State to Try to Save Net Neutrality http://ift.tt/2qS8e3P Submitted January 11, 2018 at 01:52PM by fishkopfjoe via reddit http://ift.tt/2qPhyW8

To begin with, Bitcoin relies on a network of “miners” running code that validates transactions and keeps the currency secure. Bitcoins are released as rewards for this mining and act as an incentive to keep the network running. In Ripple's setup there are no miners; […]

Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town 19 by edward | 9 comments on Hacker News.

House Passes Bill To Renew NSA Internet Spying Tool Published on January 11, 2018 at 06:25PM Dustin Volz, reporting for Reuters: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy […]

This town wants it streets removed from Waze, Google Maps. Here’s why. Judah Zeigler, the mayor of Leonia, New Jersey, explains why the borough — which is located just outside of New York City — wants its residential streets removed from navigational apps like Waze […]

Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town 13 by edward | 6 comments on Hacker News.