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What we’ve learned about the red planet from 260+ Martian meteorites A bubble of Martian atmosphere Small planets cool quickly and it has long been suspected that Mars’s core has largely but not totallycrystallized. This means Mars has mostly lost the protective magnetic field that deflects cosmic radiation. But we are confident Mars once had an ocean, containing water as we know it. The temperature was above freezing and conditions were suitable for life....

It seems like it was 10 years ago when my co-founder and I worked on the basic idea of Yotpo. A few days ago I was driving back to the office after a long meeting and thought to myself, wow there are 6-10 people working on the Yotpo dream. We have 4 engineers, a content producer, asocial media manager, investors and advisors. It amazed me to think about what has changed and the progress we’ve made, so I thought I’d share some of them with you....

Global mobile ad networkInMobirecently published an interesting report on global trends in the mobile advertising space. You can find a copy of ithere. In the report, the company predicts that emerging economies will define the next phase of mobile advertising. According to InMobi, at present, fifteen emerging market economies (namely China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Poland and Ukraine) account for more mobile subscriptions than the rest of the world combined....

“Gigafactories” could one day be churning out millions of electric vehicle batteries in the UK. The government has already committed the country toa banon selling new petrol- and diesel-engined cars by 2030, so it seems that electric vehicles (or EVs, as they’re often abbreviated) are likely to replace much of today’s fleet. The carmaker Nissan has promised tobeef up EV productionat its Sunderland plant in north-east England, while its industrial partner is set tobuild an electric battery plantnearby....

On the day the World Wide Web celebrates itstwentieth anniversary, it’s worth considering what the future holds for the Web and the Internet as a whole. Yesterday I threw out the question on Twitter and Google+, receiving some excellent answers back. Here are some of the best. Thanks to everyone who contributed, retweeted or reshared. The pessimists Some of you took a grim view of the future. Henrik Sijswerda: Pessimistic view: increased identity validation, less or no anonymity....