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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Elevance Renewable Sciences to Form Joint Venture With Wilmar International To Build World-Scale BioRefinery

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You can’t jockey around a 180,000-tonne facility ,” Shafer said on the sidelines of the Biobased Product Showcase at the BIO conference in Washington. “ Wilmar International Limited, founded in 1991, is Asia’s leading agribusiness group; it ranks amongst the largest listed companies by market capitalization on the Singapore Exchange.

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What does 2023 have in store for electric vehicles?

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The US federal government is still providing local governments with EV charging infrastructure funding in the form of grants. There are also several conferences taking place in 2023 to discuss EV infrastructure, among other items involving electric vehicles. . EV Charging Infrastructure Asia-Pacific 2023 in February in Singapore.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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