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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. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Cerf was instrumental in the early days of the Internet, including co-creating much of the infrastructure that the global network relies on to this day. Google researchers developed a solution for quantum-safe security keys, the physical external devices that function as an alternative to passwords.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. Annual investment in the global renewables industry had grown from $16.5 Billion vs. $28.3

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Today, even as AI is revolutionizing industries and threatening to upend the global labor market, many experts are wondering if today's AI is reaching its limits. Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The Minsky Family; Carnegie Mellon University (2).

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers. dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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Reeling from a crushing shortage of semiconductor chips for vehicles, carmakers also face another looming crisis: producing enough batteries to drive the global pivot towards electric vehicles. Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We

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