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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. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Cellulosic biogasoline company Cool Planet completes second close of D Round, raises another $19.4M; $60M total

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Cool Planet will use a portion of the equity raise to finalize engineering design for the company’s first commercial facility. This work will be supported by leading international engineering firm, URS Corporation, as the company recently announced.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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If a model’s weights are released, researchers, developers, and authorities can “look under the hood” of these AI engines to understand their suitability, and to mitigate their vulnerabilities before deploying them in real-world tools. We’ve seen what happens when critical digital infrastructure is controlled by just a few companies.

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EV gameplan: Strategic tie-ups, fund raising, the way forward | Autocar Professional

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Skoda not only leads Europe’s largest car maker Volkswagen Group’s operations in India, it also steers the low-cost vehicle architecture projects, for both internal combustion engines (ICEs) and electric vehicles (EVs).

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotics

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Open Robotics currently employs more than three dozen engineers, most of whom are part of the for-profit corporation. Open Robotics is an “umbrella brand” that includes OSRF (the Open Source Robotics Foundation), OSRC (the Open Source Robotics Corporation), and OSRC-SG, OSRC’s Singapore office.