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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. 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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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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She eventually changed her major to electrical engineering because, she says, she found it more interesting. The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014. You can find several of her articles in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. She says it intrigued her because “you can do something that can have a tangible impact.”.

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The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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But size isn’t the only feature engineers have been improving. Behind that barely conceivable number is the continued reduction in the price of a transistor, as engineers have learned to integrate more and more of them into the same area of silicon. Seeking raw speed, engineers at Northrop Grumman made a HEMT that passed 1 terahertz.