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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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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. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

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The United Kingdom’s Met (Meteorological) Office announced that the 2000-2009 decade “ has been, by far, the warmest decade on the instrumental record ”, and that 2009 is on track to become the fifth warmest year in the past 160 years, continuing the warming trend that has accelerated since the 1970s. Click to enlarge.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Global sales top US $45 billion a year, on their way to more than $100 billion in the coming decade. And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential.