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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration. For example, one E.U.-funded Another set of E.U.-funded

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Unbridled optimism encouraged government agencies in the United States and United Kingdom to pour money into speculative research. DeepMind , Google's London-based AI lab, the renowned roboticist Raia Hadsell is tackling this problem with a variety of sophisticated techniques. In 1967, MIT professor.

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