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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. His son, Wayne Tan, continues as Trek’s deputy chairman.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. And all of those were really valuable learnings for me around how organizations want to do a better job of using their data internally. I don't know.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. Andy Frank, this academic program has converted a number of internal combustion engine vehicles for demonstration purposes.

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