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Hyundai launches Sonata PHEV; 22-mile electric range

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Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this year. Plus, users can search for points of interest using Google with voice or text and have the directions when they start their Sonata PHEV. The PHEV is fitted with a 9.8 Available upgrades include an 8.0-inch

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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. Although not widely taken up as a stand-alone device, its Wi-Fi connectivity made it suitable for consumer electronics devices such as cameras and toys.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

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New BMW owners will be offered a growing list of music, gaming and news accessed through Bluetooth-enabled wireless gaming controllers that are connected to the infotainment system. Timing: PVB production is in South Korea with the North America on-sale date to be announced. The PV5 should be the first to be released.

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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. What's more, you can now link up to 192 of these computers together.

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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.