Comment by ICPosse8 on 13/12/2023 at 17:08 UTC

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I’ve never understood how we can store and manipulate data from a piece of plastic/metal etc. how th is my flash drive doing this??

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Comment by Kemal_Norton at 13/12/2023 at 17:42 UTC

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Billions of small capacitors that can be charged (written to) and then change the behaviour of a "wire" next to it, making it possible to detect if it had been charged.