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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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The machine-learning system, dubbed PAWS (Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security), uses data from past patrols to predict where poaching is likely to occur and a game-theory model to help generate randomized, unpredictable patrol routes, according to a 2018 IEEE Spectrum article on the project. www.youtube.com. IEEE MEMBERSHIP.

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The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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And researchers in Japan and Malaysia produced transparent diamond devices capable of handling more than 1,000 volts. Mnemonic: NAND flash memory cells can store multiple bits in a single device. Those on the market today store either 3 or 4 bits each. Researchers at Kioxia Corp. Researchers at Kioxia Corp.