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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. 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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6 Reactions to the White House’s AI Bill of Rights

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The Center for Security & Emerging Technology , at Georgetown University, notes in its AI policy newsletter that the blueprint is accompanied by. But, as the document acknowledges, the blueprint is a non-binding white paper and does not affect any existing policies, their interpretation or their implementation. government policy.”