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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

Their suggestions included, yes, yoga rooms (at San Francisco International Airport, Chicago Midway International Airport, and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, among others) but also short-story dispensers, tranquil gardens, even a swimming pool. The cupcake A.T.M.s, At Daniel K.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. This is a generous allowance, but that’s reasonable because transportation is harder to decarbonize than many other sectors. The International Energy Agency. passenger vehicles.