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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. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

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

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People are looking for that connection to the outdoors prior to spending however long they’re going to be on an aircraft,” he said. “It One tour features two of the most famed destinations in the center of Seoul: a sprawling centuries-old palace and Insa-dong , a neighborhood filled with charming craft shops and traditional homes.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. This is a generous allowance, but that’s reasonable because transportation is harder to decarbonize than many other sectors. Number of EVs on the road in China in 2021.