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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. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. She graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree, then went to the United States to pursue a doctorate at the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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A cornerstone of the program was a $35 million award , in February 2022, to MP Materials to design and build a facility to extract and process rare-earth elements from ore at its Mountain Pass mine in California. Department of State, is also a professor of practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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In advanced development of the vehicle into the Audi lunar quattro, its weight will be further reduced by the use of magnesium and other modifications to its design, although the vehicle might grow somewhat in size. And innovative ideas need supporters that promote them.

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