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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ It doesn’t have any connection to the world.

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OSU hybrid “solar battery” uses photo-assisted charging to improve performance of Li-air batteries; “negative overpotential”

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On charging, the photoelectrode and Li anode are connected to the outside circuit; on discharging, the oxygen electrode and Li anode are connected to the outside circuit. (b) Normally, connecting a solar cell to a battery would require the use of four electrodes, the researchers noted. Their hybrid design uses only three.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option. Volvo’s first EV.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. If Tesla needs to come in and build a charging site, they’ve got to pay for the grid connection.

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Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

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The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier. —Pawar and Tahir. Govinder S.

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Hands On Extra: OCXO Clock

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As described in the accompanying Hands On article , this project is a digital clock that uses a high stability 10 Megahertz oscillator as its timing reference. The Nano offers far more processing power than is necessary for performing a simple hours-minutes-seconds type clock but is cheap and simple to use. The OCXO is a 3.3-volt

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