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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Unbridled optimism encouraged government agencies in the United States and United Kingdom to pour money into speculative research. By 2017, the team had 1.5 By 2017, many of the contenders' error rates had fallen to 5 percent, and the organizers ended the contest. In 1967, MIT professor. million terms and 24.5

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