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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. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate. Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and. Queens Library.