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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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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Studies conducted in other countries, such as China and Singapore, have arrived at similar results. Promoting mixed-use neighborhoods—areas that put work and residence in proximity—would allow more bicycling and walking. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an.