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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. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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There are also a few large Asian providers, such as SI Imaging Services in South Korea and Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology in Singapore. Top: CNES/Airbus/Google Earth; Bottom: Maxar Technologies/Google Earth. Maxar and Planet in the United States and Airbus in Germany. The first of these developments is not surprising.

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