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Memory is a fickle thing. As far as my brain is concerned, I didn't exist before age three. Remembering four or five is easier, but there are holes. Thankfully, all it takes are some voyeuristic navigatio... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Before there was random access memory, there was delay line memory. It was random in a different sense; it involved turning electrical pulses into sound waves, sending them through long tubes of mercury, ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Imagine a format that lies somewhere between photos and video, and a device that takes that format automatically, without you having to click a button. Microsoft's SenseCam is a prototype that hangs aroun... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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All this talk about preserving digital legacies got me thinking: What about the bits we don't want to leave behind? Y'know, the risqué material? Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. Mor... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But people had social networks and phones, and they had to memorize and organize thousands of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It seems like something out of a movie (and hey, it is), but there's some scientific evidence that we actually carry the memories of our ancestors with us in our genetic code. Apologies in advance to my h... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We say pictures can't replace memories, but when Halley's Comet last swooped across the sky, many of us were too young to care. Our next chance to see it—about 50 years from now—will be probab... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Before David Carr was my favorite NY Times columnist, he was an asshole. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone foreve... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature-... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Hard drives, DVDs, USB sticks: This is where we store our digital lives. But while our data is timeless, our storage devices aren't. So, what's next? And then what? More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It's easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you haven't seen it in years. But now you can, in better quality, even. Does it hold up? Mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his b... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Wayback Machine offers an incredible catalog of what the web once was. But unlike that beloved Polaroid of your dad donning tweed and an afro, anyone can access the skeletons in your digital closet, a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Consciousness lost, breathing stopped, pulse gone. Someone just slipped into cardiac arrest. In order to preserve the precious memories and thoughts at risk right now, we're gonna have to squirt some perf... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There's something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the fuzzy screen of a cellphone, trying to capture it forever, like an asshole. More ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There's little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief clip may be the only existing video of writer Mark Twain and his daughters Clara and Jean. It was captured in 1909 by inventor Th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The mad geniuses at DARPA have their next project lined up: a camera that can guide itself and report back from the field. That kind of visual intelligence has been an exclusively human trait, until now. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"Lots of times the families will go down to Kinko's," the funeral director tells me. "They can do a memorial folder thing down there." Do you help them get photos off Flickr, off Facebook? "We don't reall... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Take a good look at the downward trend of this graph—it's important. It's the reason why you're only getting worse at first-person shooters and why you never feel as sharp as you were yesterday. It'... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When memories can live forever online, there's bound to be relationship issues, so we enlisted our favorite love doctor, Debby Herbenick, to share some advice. The question: When it's all over, who gets c... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop's crappy old 120GB drive? It's about time, dammit. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Today I'd like to talk to you about...backing up. I don't just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I'm talking 'bout backing up the cloud. More&n... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Just like hard drive sectors can fail, neurons can go bad as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, es... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It's easy to rip your CDs and turn them into easily stored digital files: You pop in a CD, click a few buttons, done. Now try ripping a book into a digital format. Struggling? Here's setup you'll wish you... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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One day, you're going to die. And when you do, you online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here's h... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We collect an astonishing amount of digital information. But as the Economist recently pointed out in a series of reports, we've long since surpassed our ability to store it all. Big data is here, and it'... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Bits don't have expiration dates. But memories will only live forever if the media and file formats holding them remain intact and coherent. Time can be as deadly to data storage as it is to carbon-based ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The first hard drive, from 1956, was housed in a computer the size of two refrigerators. But in less than a quarter of the century, engineers shrunk hard drives to 5.25". The first, holding 5MB, was Seaga... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Normally I'd file this image under our "what is this" image cache, but as you've already clocked, it's somehow related to our Memory [Forever] theme. Those pretty colors are a visualization of the thousan... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When memories can live forever online, there's bound to be relationship issues, so we enlisted our favorite love doctor, Debby Herbenick, to share some advice. The first question: Is it okay to delete the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything. Here are some o... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Researchers have discovered that increasing production of a protein called RGS-14 could significantly boost visual memory. They are currently investigating the exact effects on humans, but all I can think... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The IBM 305 RAMAC, which debuted in 1956, was the first computer with a hard drive. It was 16 square feet, weighed over a ton, and had to be transported by plane. But it sure as Hell beat punch cards. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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According to iTunes, I have 22,880 items in my music collection. That adds up to 70.9 days worth of music, taking up 145.26 GB of hard drive space. And thank God for it. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A 7-month-old baby witnessed her parents' murder in Brazil Mexico. Can a baby remember a horrific event like a 10-year-old who might recall the horrific sight and sound, in graphic detail? Yes and no, Sla... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. H... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In March 2008, the Department of Defense published a memo about a perceived national security threat. The target: Wikileaks, a site that had previously put out sensitive information about Abu Ghraib. The ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As concerned as we are about memory, we haven't done much to preserve it. Most of our hard drives don't last past 30 years. But soon, using diamond-like carbon nanotubes, even your Gizmodo comments could ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Yesterday I forgot four passwords, two book titles, and one pair of pants despite sticky notes reminding me of each. Since then, I've read HowStuffWorks' suggestions on improving memory. I forgot if they ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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One day, you're going to die. And when you do, you online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here's h... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You have more of your memories stored online than all of your ancestors ever left behind. The future of memory is already here. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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