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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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The work was supported by Toyota Central R&D Labs, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the US-Egypt Science and Technology Joint Fund, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. Article Ryuichi Iwata, Lenan Zhang, Kyle L. The MIT team also included Kyle Wilke, Shuai Gong, and Mingfu He.

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EV ride-hailer BluSmart seeks USD 300 mn to expand car fleet – ET Auto

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Part of the funding it raises will go toward the company’s expansion beyond Delhi and the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. You can fit 15 Singapores in terms of population” in the area around the capital of Delhi, he said. The company will increase its Indian fleet of electric vehicles — supplied by Tata Motors Ltd. ,

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Elon Musk raises awareness of Twitter’s lack of transparency on ad audits

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Andrea’s response was part of a short thread that began with a report from Reuters. Singapore held the highest level of global desktop display ad fraud rates with 4.1%. So far, they haven’t responded, but if they do, we’ll update the article. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 18, 2022.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. They presented their results in the article “ Discrete Cosine Transform ,” published in the January 1974 IEEE Transactions on Computers. Milicevic, and IEEE Life Senior Member Zoran S.

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

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from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm. Some key regions include China, Singapore, Panama, Brazil and coastlines of Asia, Africa and South America. —i.e., Ship air pollution effects are greatest in areas where heavily travelled ship routes exist in, and next to, densely populated communities. 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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Another important finding from the study was that the potential for shifting to EVs is fairly uniform for different parts of the country. The work was supported by the New England University Transportation Center at MIT, the MIT Leading Technology and Policy Initiative, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the Charles E.

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