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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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Velotric Discover 1 e-bike now $1,099 ($500 off), Juicebox EV charger hits $529, and more

Baua Electric

It is joined by a rare discount on the Juicebox 48A Level 2 EV Charger at $529 , as well as the Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro Portable Power Station for $1,199. You can also go hands-free by connecting it to your Amazon Echo, Alexa, or Google Home. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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The latest smartphones are more powerful than the fastest supercomputers from the year 2000. And it worked: Computing power, and more impressively computing power per watt or per dollar, has grown exponentially in the past five decades. Measurement of performance, though, is not limited to chips. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai

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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood

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Sam Altman and OpenAI and everyone involved there, those that are doing the same at the Google offshoots, Microsoft, which is essentially OpenAI, I guess. Everybody’s going to be learning the same thing because everybody is going to be as if everybody’s at the same university. And that stopped in about 2000. Where else?

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year. China’s tech giant, Baidu, is trying to become to autonomous cars what Google’s Android has done for smartphones.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

He went on to own a Rover 2000, which was the most handsome looking car of its time. In the early 2000s he picked up his first electric car - the Revai. Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. The NMC cells usually show a life of 2000 cycles in the lab, compared to the 4000 of LFP.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Steven Cherry You know, if you look in Google Maps, for example, you can get nearby restaurants, you can get nearby regular gas stations, you can't get charging stations when you put. in 2000 to 0.7 We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?