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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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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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And while marrying this with a home-grown cryptocurrency might reduce its processing costs, the real ambition is to become the main payments intermediary for it's enormous global user base. Running a free global remittance service for potentially millions of users is also an expensive way to build up your user base, says Maynard.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Contrasting the two, Volvo is “warm and welcoming,” with “natural and humanistic” materials and style, but Polestar is “pure and minimalistic” with design that indicates it’s “high-tech and exclusive.” Volvo’s first EV.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | 2022

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You have different packages related to connectivity available from Rs 1500 to Rs 2400 per annum servicing is extra. Basically they have used software and hardware engineering to protect the battery pack The Ather 450X and 450 Plus are true connected scooters - with remote monitoring, over the air we software updates etc.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Cerf was instrumental in the early days of the Internet, including co-creating much of the infrastructure that the global network relies on to this day. That would require reversing the trend by tech companies to turn their platforms, services, and apps into walled gardens. He didn’t get everything right, however.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | Mid 2021

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The annual subscription for connectivity and updates is optional. Different packages related to servicing and connectivity available from Rs 1500 to Rs 3600 per annum. The Ather 450X and 450 Plus are true connected scooters - with remote monitoring, over the air we software updates etc. The scooter is not connected.

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IBM Research discovers new class of industrial polymers; cheaper, lighter, stronger and recyclable thermosets for aerospace, automotive and others

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Zhang/Virginia Tech. Polymers are long chains of molecules connected through chemical bonds. In a perspective on the IBM paper, also published in Science , Dr. Tim Long from Virginia Tech noted that: Thermoplastics are polymers that become pliable or moldable at elevated temperatures, but return to a solid state when cooled.

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