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Belgium or Brooklyn? 5 Bold New Places to Eat in Brussels.

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Anju Many of the most interesting new restaurants in Brussels aren’t found in Îlot Sacré , the high-rent heart of the city, but in outlying neighborhoods like St.-Gilles Mr. Degeimbre was born in South Korea but adopted by a Belgian family as a baby. Gilles , an evolving but still more affordable area favored by young creatives.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Hero or antihero?

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

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In recent years, there’s been an uptick in these pilot projects across Europe and the United States, as well as in China, Japan, and South Korea. The key force behind the changes taking place in this windswept Dutch city is not a global market trend or the maturity of the engineering solutions. In the UK, experiments are.

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