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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times. So it’s not surprising that overlapping and competing claims surround the origin of the thumb drive.

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Putting the “Utility” in Sport Utility Vehicle: Which Electric SUVs Perform Best Off-Road?

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Best True Electric Sport Utility Vehicles In this article, we’re going to take a look at some of the electric SUVs hitting the market that perform like real SUVs. Where are the EVs not trying to straddle the line between fitting into city parking spaces and being able to handle the odd dirt road here and there?

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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

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Yesterday the UK Government announced immediate changes to the Plug-In car Grant, reducing the value to £2,500 and the number of models eligible. The value of the grant has been reduced by £500 to £2,500 and is only available on cars under £35,000. Additionally, MG has committed to topping up the grant to £3,000 until March 31, 2021.

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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. We share grant money, we’re all on each other's PhD students committees. New York University’s. So, we’re looking at how we can take the robots out of the labs and test them in real-world situations across the city.

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Promising EV Trends to Lookout For in 2023

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In this article let us look at some of the trends that are being caught in the EV industry now and for the years to come. This calls for more charging forecourts, more grants to build home and on-street stations, and more companies that provide charging infrastructure. With the delivery of 10.5

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., in Rochester, NY. You’re crazy.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Cameras are forbidden.

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