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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Ironically, Adobe is now licensing its font technology to Linotype, and Linotype is converting its entire library of some 2000 fonts into PostScript representations.) As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. No earlier technology had done them justice. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. What’s NeXT?

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming. nationals and legal residents. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. The Stringency of the Cap.

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