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Dangerous things, software updates. Push the wrong button and they can be as devastating as any Chinese cyberattack, plunging parts of the Internet into darkness. The lights temporarily went out for some of the world’s most popular websites last month when a customer of Fastly, a content delivery network (CDN), stumbled over a nasty bug […]

Members of the Verizon Response Team (VRT) are using a variety of solutions to deliver broadband communications to public-safety agencies battling wildfires throughout the U.S.—at no additional cost—as part of the carrier’s Verizon Frontline offering, according to a Verizon official. Cory Davis, director of Verizon Response and public-safety operations, said the VRT has been “super […]

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Russian researchers have claimed they are able to split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon in a way that could be soon slash the cost of automotive grade hydrogen. The researchers, from the Institute of the Problems of Chemical Physics (IPCP), applied a method called plasmo-chemical methane decomposition to produce so-called “turquoise” hydrogen. “This method has […]