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Univ. of Southampton researchers develop auction-based online pricing mechanism for more efficient management of EV charging

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Researchers at the University of Southampton (UK) have designed a pricing mechanism for electric vehicle charging based on an online auction protocol that makes it possible to charge EVs without overloading the local electricity network. Alex Rogers, University of Southampton computer scientist and co-author. Gerding, E., Gerding, E.,

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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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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