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Hyundai launches Sonata PHEV; 22-mile electric range

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Hyundai lanched the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle—Hyundai’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle—along with the hybrid version of the seventh-generation Sonata, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Sonata PHEV is expected to deliver 93 MPGe combined in EV mode based on internal estimates.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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Next Gen Chips Will be Powered From Below Transistors You can make transistors as small as you want, but if you can't connect them up to each other, there's no point. So Arm and the Belgian research institute imec spent a few years finding room for those connections. We're definitely doing that in 2025."

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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Satellite imagery has also helped identify illegal fishing activities , fight human trafficking, monitor oil spills , get accurate reporting on COVID-19 deaths, and even investigate Uyghur internment camps in China —all situations where the primary actors couldn’t be trusted to accurately report what’s going on.