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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systems

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With the decrease of wettability (moving left to right), the gas-evolving electrode transitions from an internal growth and departure mode to a gas-filled mode, associated with a drastic change of bubble behaviors and significant increase of overpotential. Article Ryuichi Iwata, Lenan Zhang, Kyle L. Gallant, Evelyn N.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm. —i.e., reduction of childhood asthma globally. Reduction in annual PM 2.5

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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The study highlights the important role that car sharing of internal combustion engine vehicles could play in driving electrification. Another important finding from the study was that the potential for shifting to EVs is fairly uniform for different parts of the country. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

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Greetings from the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan! They are just a preview of our in-depth ICRA coverage, and over the next several weeks we’ll have lots of articles and videos for you. Katzschmann from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. From 2001 to 2005, he served as president of the International Speech Communication Association. He also served on the Computer Society’s governing board.