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The new Amazon Echo Dot For Kids is that little green thing on the bedside table.

Amazon has announced new kid-friendly features and parental controls for the Echo home assistant. What do AI experts think about encouraging kids to spend more time with Alexa?

Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is taking the parent company of the Snapchat app public.

Snapchat, All Grown-Up: 5 Things We Learned From Snap's IPO Filing

Snap — expected to be valued at more than $20 billion when it goes public — may be the first company to use the term "sexting" in an initial public offering filing with the SEC.

The Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing in 2016. The Chinese government has released its first paper on cyber policy, which defends state control of Internet access in the country.

China Describes Its Vision Of Government-Controlled Internet

In its first cyber policy paper, the Chinese government emphasize the idea that each country should govern the Internet as it sees fit, and insisted that the Internet in China is "fully open."

The Justice Department has charged Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, with bank fraud and money laundering. She allegedly converted money from credit cards into cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and transferred it abroad in support of ISIS.

Long Island Woman Charged With Using Bitcoin To Launder Money To Support ISIS

Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, allegedly bought more than $60,000 in cryptocurrency, got a $22,000 loan and then transferred the money abroad. The Justice Department says she intended to join ISIS in Syria.

Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board in Tempe, Ariz., examine the Uber vehicle involved in the fatal crash.

California Won't Renew Uber's Permit To Test Self-Driving Vehicles After Fatal Crash

The state says the permit expires Saturday. Uber itself says it won't seek a renewal. Hours earlier Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced he's suspending testing there, where the death occurred.

Guest artist Rolando Villazón, renowned operatic tenor, performs and narrates the Christmas Story, as recorded in Luke 2 of the King James Bible, and a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen story, “The Little Match Girl.”

Christmas With The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazón (on KPBS 2)

Airs Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

Both Google and Samsung are rolling out new processes to issue security updates for Android devices, like the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.

Under Pressure, Google Promises To Update Android Security Regularly

Google recently came under sharp criticism after researchers found a major flaw in Android would let hackers take over smartphones. Now it's launching a new system to protect phones regularly.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will take the same position at the head of Verizon's Oath.

Yahoo And AOL Move In Together Under 'Oath,' Verizon's New Digital Arm

The digital content mashup of Internet oldsters will be led by Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO. Though the Yahoo deal was widely panned, it gives Verizon a vast subscriber base appealing to advertisers.

Weeks after Tesla founder Elon Musk and Gov. Ricardo Rossello spoke about the tech company aiding Puerto Rico, Tesla says it has restored electricity to a children's hospital, using solar energy and batteries.

Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico

The hospital offers services to some 3,000 young patients. Tesla's solar system is reportedly providing the hospital with all the electricity it needs.

The Google Chrome extension is similar to a spell check function, except instead of flagging misspelled words, it identifies insults and hateful messages and then prompts the user to write something else.

This New Chrome Extension 'Rewords' Hateful Online Messages

Aimed at preventing cyberbullying, the online tool, called Reword, flags insulting phrases and crosses them out with a red line. So far, the product is available for Google's Chrome web browser.

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