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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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For example, a number of scientists are surveying levels of RF fields in the environment, to address the public's health concerns. Not an easy task, given the multitude of RF sources in the environment and the rapid falloff of RF fields from any source. Foster: Risk perception is a complicated business. The list goes on.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Urbanization: In 2009, for the first time, more people lived in cities than in the countryside.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. To this day, PCI slots are used to connect network cards, sound cards, disc controllers, and other peripherals to computer motherboards via a bus that carries data and control signals.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. You really have to package together something that allows you.to

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Best smart helmets – keep your head safe while you ride!

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The unit connects via Bluetooth and has a set of speakers, as well as an integrated microphone. Do keep in mind Sena products are not cheap. The Fenix AR-1 is also supposed to have features like a way to use both the HUD and the rear camera without the need to use a connected phone. This is by no means a lackluster unit.

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Why are some EV chargers more expensive than others?

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We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. The automobile industry is investing in protecting the environment. These chargers only require a single-phase connection. However if the property is fitted with a 3-phase connection type, then chargers up to 22kW become available. We want to save money.