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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. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims.

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Nearly one in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 was electric: IEA | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Chinese car makers can undercut rivals in Europe because their production costs are heavily subsidised. Replacing 2/3Ws, public and shared mobility or more active forms of transport with personal cars may not be desirable in all cases. Chinese companies accounted for 75% of electric car sales in 2022, and 45% in 2023.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Certainly one of our readers despatched me an e-mail asking how it’s imaginable that some 2-year-old Chinese language firms have already got 3 unutilized EVs at the street (Zeekr) or {that a} unutilized maker can create 7 unutilized fashions and seven facelifts in 5 years (Nio). million vehicles by way of 2025, and many others.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. He was a brilliant, brilliant person.

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