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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. 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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Honda, American Electric Power developing 2nd life applications for used EV batteries

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Storing additional power in used EV batteries can help utilities meet demand by using renewable energy resources. —Ryan Harty, manager of Connected and Environmental Business, American Honda Motor Co., Neither automakers nor utilities can address these complex technical, policy and business issues alone.

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DENSO and Toyota Tsusho to test quantum computing analysis of IoT traffic data

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This type of technology will be essential in the connected era, when vehicles and mobility systems need to process large amounts of data in real-time. D-Wave’s latest-generation system is the 2000-qubit D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer. DENSO will present the concept and overviews at CES 2018.

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New stable Fe3O4/C composite material for conversion electrode in solid-state Li-ion batteries

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In addition, recently a new chemistry has surfaced, allowing to store more Li + by the so-called conversion mechanism. Despite these premises, transition metal oxides associated with the conversion mechanism usually suffer from a series of issues intimately connected with the conversion reaction itself. —Maroni et al.

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Lithium-iron battery maintenance guide

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The anode and cathode store lithium, while the electrolytes carry positively charged lithium ions from the anode to the cathode, and vice versa, through the separator. LiFePO4 will provide up to 2000 complete charging cycles or as many as 6000 partial cycles!

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nanoFLOWCELL to present new QUANT F flow cell EV at Geneva

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The fact that we store the energy for our drive in a fluid provides us with enormous advantages over systems employed to date in the field of electric mobility. In this connection, I would expressly like to point out that we researchers are not interested here in pumping up hp/kW figures, but rather in realising what is technically feasible.

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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Menzel says he first saw the frequency selection proposals for JWST around 2000, when he was working at Northrop Grumman. Any scientific data the JWST collects during its lifetime will need to be stored on board, because the spacecraft doesn’t maintain round-the-clock contact with Earth. I knew where the risks were in this mission.

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