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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. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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Since November 2000, there has always have been a select few people living apart from the rest of us—the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station. ISS Set the Standard The International Space Station—originally expected to be completed by 1994 for $8 billion—was completed in 2011 for more than $100 billion.

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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The Action Office still has relevance today Propst may have had regrets, but it’s worth revisiting the ideas that led him to design the Action Office in the first place. Most of them are outlined in his 1968 book, The Office: A Facility Based on Change (Business Press International). In 2000, the Bose Corp.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLIX)

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The Mark’s four-speed 4R70W (the old AOD with new electronic controls, also called AODE) was strengthened late in the ‘97 model run with some revised internal components for better reliability. Contrary to what the press said, the LS was of course rear-drive and did not arrive until model year 2000.

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Ascend Energy and Atrex Energy demo tubular SOFC electric ATV, fueled by natural gas

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idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV. In addition, Atrex Energy’s tubular design is much more tolerant to the stresses from internal reforming, the company said.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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RoboCup is an annual international competitive event that merges visionary thinking about how AI and robotics will change the world with practical robot design. www.youtube.com The first RoboCup, which I attended as a student, was held in 1997 in a small exhibit room at the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) in Nagoya, Japan.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. proposed the idea of the CCD , for which they would later win a Nobel Prize. Just the year before, in 1969, George E. Frederick E. Chang Hae-Ja.