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Where to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck

Baua Electric

It’s the backpacker’s call to India, the sunseeker’s attraction to Mexico, and the digital nomad’s drive to get to Thailand: Go where the dollar buys more. Getting around Australia by air isn’t cheap either, especially since the recent collapse of the low-cost carrier Bonza. The Northern Hemisphere summer is Australia’s winter.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. 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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