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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” This is good for the grid. Kempton and Letendre’s. That could change soon.

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

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Washington State University began experimenting with canning cheese in the 1930s, in search of packaging that would prolong the product’s shelf life. The university says its cheese will last indefinitely if refrigerated.) But he found the cheese to be “pretty remarkable,” he said.