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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. Cerf recalls asking.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Though this was before Apple’s 2001 iPod made these devices popular worldwide, a number of MP3 players of varied quality were already on the market in the late 1990s. Electronics pirates around the world then went after the thumb drive.

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

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Through its Alphabet holding company , Google is also getting into the game with plans for a self-driving car. Chile is not granting any new concessions, and opposition in Bolivia has led to a suspension of lithium mining. Within the Lithium Triangle, it’s all about Argentina right now.

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