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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” Nearly 60 years later, his prediction is still driving the industry forward. After earning his Ph.D.,

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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. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked out the window of his hotel room in the French city of Le Havre and furiously painted his vision of its industrial harbor. Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, based in France since 2002. 13, 1872.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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tech industry during the 1990s. They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap.

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