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Is mining Bitcoin or any other digital currencies still profitable? It’s a question many are asking, but the answer may vary depending on the person. Digital currency mining has proven to be extremely popular over the last years, as it has been an easy way to earn “free” money and allowed people to accumulate their cryptocurrency portfolio. Claim $500 Worth of Bitcoin from PayPal “Mining” is the term used for creating new digital coins. Each miner will be part of an online mining pool, and together they will solve mathematical algorithms that authorize transactions and yield the rewards of new coins of the respective currency (e.g. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and so on). In order to measure the power of one’s mining capabilities, people call it “hashing power,” which is in the number of calculations done per second. The more hashing power one has, the more digital currency they can earn. Sounds easy, right? Well, it used to be something not many people participated in, and you c

Facebook’s CEO today asked the question on the tip of most of our tongues: are we building the world we all want? In just under 7,000 words, Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto addressed the company mantra — connecting the world — while taking stock of the current political climate, socio-economic impact of globalization on its users, and the need to accelerate scientific research to address issues like climate change and pandemics. It was, in a word, epic. Zuckerberg’s plan, as you would expect, started with Facebook. The message revolved around community. Zuckerberg asked, and addressed, Facebook’s role in building “supportive,” “safe,” “informed,” “civically-engaged,” and “inclusive” communities. Here’s what he had to say. Supportive communities Our goal is to strengthen existing communities by helping us come together online as well as offline, as well as enabling us to form completely new communities, transcending physical location. When we do this, beyond connecting online, we reinf

WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU Lab-grown meat could bring an end to unnecessary animal deaths. A new research paper just brought that dream one step closer. A new study published in the  journal  Scientific Reports  has taken us one step closer to the dream of animal-free meat. (And, no, in case your mind immediately goes to the 1973 sci-fi movie  Soylent Green , it ain’t people, either!) “What the paper describes is research designed to generate muscle from a newly established pig stem-cell line, rather that from primary cells taken directly from a pig,” co-author Dr. Nicholas Genovese, a stem-cell biologist (and vegetarian), told Digital Trends. “This entailed understanding the biology of relatively uncharacterized and recently-derived porcine induced pluripotent stem cell lines. What conditions support cell growth, survival and differentiation? These are all questions I had to figure out in the lab before the cells could be turned into muscle.” As you can imagine, this wasn’t straightfo

According to an industry insider who  spoke to Reuters , Apple is gearing up to begin manufacturing the  iPhone SE  in the south Indian city of Bangalore. The news follows  our report from two weeks ago  about Apple’s plans to start building phones in India by the end of April. Priyank Kharge, IT minister of the state of Karnataka (of which Bangalore is a part), tweeted – and then deleted – an announcement signaling that the company would kick off manufacturing operations soon. The Economic Times reported earlier today that the Cupertino-based firm is looking to  build between 300,000 and 400,000 iPhone SE units  in a plant that will be handled by Taiwanese manufacturer  Wistron . However, the company’s India Country Director, Sudipto Gupta,  told Digit  yesterday that he is unaware of any such plans. While that leaves the story up in the air at the moment, the plan to kick off India operations with the  iPhone  SE could make sense for Apple. Cheaper and smaller than the more recent

If you thought only the government has advanced spying tools for your iPhone or Android device, then you were wrong. It turns out that it’s pretty easy to spy on people, including your significant other or children, by installing commercially available applications. It’s also illegal, and if you’re thinking about doing it, there are probably other personal problems to fix first. An extensive story from  Forbes  dives right into the matter, revealing the many intricacies of selling government-grade surveillance tools to private citizens looking to spy on their spouses. The report reveals that various companies would actually sell such tools in blatant disregard of local laws. The spyware would allow users to track their victims, and the report specifically mentions that it’s very common to see such tools put to work in domestic abuse cases. “Control is the absolute heart of domestic abuse, that’s what it’s all about, and so it’s not surprising perpetrators are finding new ways of co

ZTE's sub-brand nubia has confirmed its presence at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC). The company sent out invitations for media to visit its stand at the industry's largest event. While the teaser reveals where exactly nubia products will be showcased at the MWC venue, there aren't any details on which products will be displayed. Also, it looks like nubia won't be holding any MWC-specific press conference, so chances of new announcements are slim. Still, rumors say the successor to  the nubia Prague S  (allegedly dubbed Prague S2) could be showcased at the event so hope remains

Hay muchas aplicaciones de correo electrónico para Android pero no todas son tan rápidas e inteligentes como  EasilyDo , que llega a este sistema operativo. Android tiene por defecto la aplicación de Gmail preinstalada, y es que esa es una de las razones por las que Google desarrolla este sistema. No obstante hay muchas alternativas  si queremos un gestor de correo más personalizado. ProtonMail, el correo cifrado, ultraseguro y libre creado en el CERN Así es ProtonMail, el correo cifrado más utilizado del mundo. Creado por científicos del CERN y el MIT. Una de estas acaba de llegar a Android tras un año en iOS. Se trata de  EasilyDo , una app que se centra en aprender cómo usamos el correo y permitirnos gestionarlo de forma cómoda, integrando los gestos de deslizamiento que son casi obligatorios desde que  Mailbox  los implementara. Sencillo y rápido Lo primero que llama la atención es que es muy rápido. Podríamos pensar que es una imitación de Inbox pero al lado de esa opci

PLATO is a European Space Agency telescope set to launch in 2024. The name is an acronym for "PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars." The overall goal of the mission is to figure out under what conditions planets form and whether those conditions are favorable for life.  To do this, PLATO will seek out and investigate Earth-size exoplanets, especially planets that orbit in the habitable zone around sun-like stars. (The habitable zone is usually defined as the area around a star where there is enough energy for liquid water on a planet's surface, although habitability also depends on other factors such as star variability.) It will determine how big their radii are; verify the mass of the planets from ground-based observatories; use astroseismology or "starquakes" to learn about a star's mass, radius and age; and identify bright targets for atmospheric spectroscopy along with other telescopes. If all goes to plan, the mission should be able to provid

Several upcoming NASA missions will use lasers to increase data transmission from space. Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You're lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few megabits per second (Mbps) - a pittance even by dial-up standards. But we might be on the cusp of a change. Just as going from dial-up to broadband revolutionized the Internet and made high-resolution photos and streaming video a given, NASA may be ready to undergo a similar "broadband" moment in coming years. The key to that data revolution will be lasers. For almost 60 years, the standard way to "talk" to spacecraft has been with radio waves, which are ideal for long distances. But optical communications, in which data is beamed over laser light, can increase that rate by as much as 10 to 100 times. High data rates will allow researchers to gather science faster, study s

A Secret Service agent stands watch as President Barack Obama arrives aboard the Marine One helicopter at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York on Sept. 13, 2016.Carlos Barria/Reuters Protecting the president isn't easy or cheap, and according to estimates  from The Washington Post , President Donald Trump and his family are on track to supersede what it cost to protect former President Barack Obama and his family by hundreds of millions of dollars, the newspaper reported on Thursday night. Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracked the cost of travel expenses for Obama, estimated that $97 million was spent during his eight years in office. However, based on the first four weeks of Trump's presidency, which included three trips to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump is well on his way to jump past that figure. The Post rounded up a handful of estimates of the costs of protecting the Trump family incurred by the US departments of Defense and Hom

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 16, 2017 East Room 12:55 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. I just wanted to begin by mentioning that the nominee for Secretary of the Department of Labor will be Mr. Alex Acosta. He has a law degree from Harvard Law School, was a great student. Former clerk for Justice Samuel Alito. And he has had a tremendous career. He's a member, and has been a member, of the National Labor Relations Board, and has been through Senate confirmation three times, confirmed -- did very, very well. And so Alex, I've wished him the best. We just spoke. And he's going to be -- I think he'll be a tremendous Secretary of Labor. And also, as you probably heard just a little while ago, Mick Mulvaney, former congressman, has just been approved -- weeks late, I have to say that. Weeks, weeks late. Office of Management and Budget. And he will be, I think, a fantastic addition. Paul Singer has just left.