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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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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft,” wrote Norman Augustine, formerly Undersecretary of the Army, back in 1984. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again.

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