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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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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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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. From Shanghai to Singapore to Silicon Valley, you will see these services sooner than most forecast. No one was hurt.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Meanwhile, Singapore is funding a US $52 million open-source development effort for Southeast Asia, and the UAE continues to bankroll some of the largest available open generative AI models. Those thresholds are based on a range of factors, including the computing power used to train the model. exemptions for open-source development.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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Being stationary with respect to Earth means that GEO satellites are always within range of a downlink station, so they can send data back to Earth in minutes. Typically, they can transmit data for only 10 minutes or so before they get out of range of a ground station. Both offer free access to a wide range of open data.