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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. It was called the ThumbDrive. Today it is familiar worldwide.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

Their suggestions included, yes, yoga rooms (at San Francisco International Airport, Chicago Midway International Airport, and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, among others) but also short-story dispensers, tranquil gardens, even a swimming pool. The cupcake A.T.M.s, At Daniel K.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Studies conducted in other countries, such as China and Singapore, have arrived at similar results. Although EV battery costs have fallen dramatically over the past decade, the International Energy Agency is projecting a. The International Energy Agency. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles.