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A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050  Written by SARAH EMERSON CONTRIBUTING EDITOR December 2, 2016 // 09:30 AM EST The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.Climate scientists warn that by 2050, an astonishing 55 trillion kilograms …

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We have always believed in making the open, interoperable web as strong as possible. For a while there were certain experiences the web couldn’t provide, such as working offline, sending notifications, and connecting to hardware. We launched Chrome apps three years ago to bridge this gap. Since then, we’ve worked with the web standards community …

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The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released, virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices. The …

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By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff August 17, 2010 Wired September 2010 Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko The Web Is Dead? A Debate How the Web Wins How Do Native Apps and Web Apps Compare? Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services …

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