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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. MB of data. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

Cars That Think

Over the coming years, generative AI will support creative, analytic, and scientific applications that go far beyond today’s text and image generators; we’ll see such applications as personalized tutors, desktop healthcare assistants, and backyard film studios. And after a confrontation with its member state governments in December, the E.U.

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