What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work?

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Mount Removable Drives and Network Locations in the Windows Subsystem for Linux How to Customize the Recommendations Row on Android TV How to Get Spotify to Crossfade Between Songs Like an Actual DJ What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work? How to Use Voice Dictation on Windows 10 How to Associate Certain Smart Lights with a Specific Echo How to Block Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi Network From Appearing on Windows Why Are MOBA Games like League of Legends So Popular? How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone How to Make iPhone Notifications Disappear as Soon as You've Read Them How to Tether Your Android Phone and Share Its Internet Connection with Other Devices Today's Review Geek Articles I Miss Smartphone Bezels Already The Best iPad Cases for Kids: Keep Your Tablet (and Kid!) Safe and Sound Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Passive Component In the context of electrical, computer, and storage systems, a Passive Component is a module/part that does not require electrical power in order to operate and is thus not capable of power gain. Some examples of Passive Components are: chassis, enclosures, capacitors, resistors, transformers, etc. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Something is wrong on the internet Quasi-automated kids videos are deeply disturbing, and point to all sorts of problems the wider web is experiencing. [James Bridle/Medium] Big Brother isn't just watching: workplace surveillance can track your every move Companies are increasingly watching everything employees do online, and sometimes even watch them via webcam. [The Guardian] An Open Letter to Intel from the creator of MIMIX Turns out that MINIX, a tiny UNIX-like operating system, is running deep inside every Intel processor, and no one told Andrew S. Tanenbaum, MINIX's developer. [Vrije Unisersiteit Amsterdam] How to Mount Removable Drives and Network Locations in the Windows Subsystem for Linux Starting with Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, the Windows Subsystem for Linux now allows you to manually mount drives. It still automatically mounts all internal NTFS drives. However, you can now manually mount external drives and network folders using the Linux mountcommand. Read This Article → How to Customize the Recommendations Row on Android TV When you fire up Android TV, the first thing you see is a list of movies and shows the system thinks you’ll like. It’s often full of the latest flicks or hottest news, but sometimes it could just be things relevant to your interests and the apps you have installed. The thing is, you can actually optimize this row to show suggestions only from the apps you want. Read This Article → How to Get Spotify to Crossfade Between Songs Like an Actual DJ When you listen to a live DJ, one song doesn't stop playing and then another start after a brief pause. Instead, the tracks transition into each one another. One popular technique for doing so is called “crossfading”. The two tracks overlap for a few seconds, the volume going down for the first track as it comes up for the second. Read This Article → What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work? Bitcoin. the digital currency, has been all over the news for years. But because it’s entirely digital and doesn’t necessarily correspond to any existing fiat currency, it’s not easy to understand for the newcomer. Let’s break down the basis of exactly what Bitcoin is, how it works, and its possible future in the global economy. Read This Article → How to Use Voice Dictation on Windows 10 Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update makes voice dictation much easier to use. Now, you can immediately begin dictation by pressing a key Windows+H on your keyboard. You don’t have to dig through the Control Panel and set anything up first. Read This Article → How to Associate Certain Smart Lights with a Specific Echo In the past, if you wanted to tell Alexa to turn the lights on or off in a room, you had to be specific as to which room. But now, with the new way Alexa handles groups, you can associate certain lights with a specific Echo device. Read This Article → How to Block Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi Network From Appearing on Windows Does your neighbor have an obnoxious Wi-Fi network name? You can hide it from the Wi-Fi menu on your computers, preventing it from showing up. You could go even further and block all other Wi-Fi networks, too, only allowing your PCs to see and connect to the Wi-Fi networks you allow. Read This Article → Why Are MOBA Games like League of Legends So Popular? Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, or MOBAs, refer to a very specific subset of top-down, team-based strategy titles. Despite humble beginnings as a modded offshoot of real-time strategy games, these titles have exploded into the forefront of PC gaming, gaining tens of millions of players and a spot at the top of the eSports (blech*) world. Read This Article → How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone You're having a night out. With dinner down the hatch, you're walking down the street with your sweetheart to the next destination. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, when that feeling hits the pit of your stomach: your phone is missing. Did you leave it at the restaurant? Or maybe at home? Did someone steal it? Your mind races. You have no idea. Read This Article → How to Make iPhone Notifications Disappear as Soon as You've Read Them The Notification Center in iOS is split into two sections: your new notifications, and your History. Notifications for things that have happened since you last looked at your phone appear at the top. After that you've got all the older notifications that you've seen but haven't done anything about; they appear under Earlier Today, Yesterday, and so on. Read This Article → How to Tether Your Android Phone and Share Its Internet Connection with Other Devices Tethering is the act of sharing your phone’s mobile data connection with another device—such as your laptop or tablet—connecting it to the Internet through your phone’s data connection. There are several ways to tether on Android. Read This Article → Advertisement Dashlane - Never Forget Another Password Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download