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Rambus And NVIDIA Bury The Hatchet, Sign 5 Year Agreement

While Rambus has settled in one form or another with most of the major players in the computing industry, one of the remaining holdouts has been NVIDIA. NVIDIA has already lost to Rambus in court over some infringement cases, while cases over other prod...
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Men Remember Bad—and Arousing—Times Better Than Women [Science]





Do you remember your first break-up in great detail? Maybe sex from the other month? Or, most vividly, the really bad sex from last year? Turns out, men remember unpleasant and sexual experiences far more ...
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This Giant Chunk of Metal Is 4 Kilobytes of Memory [Past Perfect]





What's this gent holding? A toaster? Farm equipment? Part of an engine? Wreckage from a destroyed tank? Nope—that's 4KB of ol' fashioned IBM memory. That's enough to hold 12% of my Facebook profile p...
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The Fastest RAM for Your Gaming PC [Memory]





You just bought the fastest (and most expensive) desktop platform on the planet. Which company's memory will you use to populate Intel's quad-channel controller? We tested four purportedly high-end kits in...
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Dating Fails: This Won’t End Well






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How Driving a Taxi Changes London Cabbies’ Brains

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
Every black cab driver in central London has to have “The Knowledge” — a memorized map of the capital, including some 25,000 streets and thousands of landmarks, right down to the order of theaters on Shaftesbury ...
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128Gb NAND Chips Promise SD Cards with Terabytes of Storage [Memory]





Cell phones have taken another step towards becoming full-fledged pocket computers with an announcement by Micron and Intel. Get ready to carry even more of your digital life on your phone. More &r...
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IBM's 3D RAM Will Make Your Silly 2D RAM Irrelevant [Guts]





3D transistors? Ugh. Dude, that's so 2011. IBM's new design for RAM, employing a 3D manufacturing process, is where the real future magic lies. More »






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Introducing AMD’s Memory Brand

We discussed the availability of AMD branded memory modules earlier this month, but today AMD is officially unveiling information on their memory platform. There are a few major questions many will have: why is AMD entering the memory market at all, an...
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Why Your Grandchildren Will Never Respect You [Humor]






I don't care how many stories you tell your grandkids about how terrific you were when you were their age; all it's going to take is one look at your Facebook Timeline to shatter the illusion. Stupid hone...
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Walking Through Doorways Causes You to Forget, Stupid [Memory]






You ever get up to do something, walk into another room, and then immediately forget what you were going to do? Don't worry, it's probably not early onset Alzheimer's. Turns out it was the door's fault. Y...
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Rambus Loses Major Antitrust Case Again Hynix & Micron

There are few companies in the tech world as infamous as Rambus, an IP-only RAM development firm. For the better part of 10 years now they have been engaged in court cases with virtually every RAM and x86 chipset manufacturer around over the violation ...
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Reader Squees: In Memory of Sushi


Luke and Anna say: “In loving memory of our friend, Sushi the hamster, who passed away last month.”
In his lovely hammie-sized boat, I’m sure Sushi has sailed happily away over the rainbow bridge.
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HTC Giving Future Android Buyers 5GB of Dropbox Space [Android]






This was hinted at when HTC announced its HTC Rhyme and we saw Dropbox installed as a pre-loaded app, but now HTC has confirmed it. Future buyers of HTC Android phones get a useful 5GB of free Dropbox sto...
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Yale Stores Data Mechanically—with Frickin' Lasers [Memory]






Engineers at Yale University say they've invented a new type of mechanical memory device that is read from and written to by light. According to its creators, this development could lead to better sensors...
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Western Digital's HD Factory "Submerged" by Thai Flooding [Memory]






One of the world's largest hard drive makers has emerged as another victim of the floods that've hit Thailand, with WD reporting that one of its Thai plants has been "inundated" by water and some equipmen...
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Sex Can Literally Blow Your Mind [Sex]


Could Sex have adverse side effects on your memory? Livescience tells the story of a woman who, an hour after having sex, began experiencing an episode of temporary global amnesia. More »






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Acting Like Animals: An Elephant Never Forgets…


… and trust me, that’s not a good thing. I mean, every little detail of every single thing to ever happen to me… it’s all etched in my memory! Permanently! Which comes in handy in many situations, I suppose. I mean, I never would...
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Why Your Wife Remembers Everything Barry White Sang [Video]






Want your wife or girlfriend to remember that you need the car on Saturday, drop your voice a few octaves. NPR reports that research conducted by Kevin Allan of the University of Aberdeen King's College i...
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Kingston Shows off Business SF-2281 SSD & 64GB Sandy Bridge E

I dropped by Kingston's booth at the IDF tech showcase to check out two things this evening: Kingston's SSDNow KC100 and another Sandy Bridge E demo. The KC100 is another SF-2281 SSD but aimed at business users with a 5-year warranty instead of...
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The Memory Buyer's Guide: What's the Best RAM for My System? [Memory]






RAM. How much do you need? How fast should it be? Are latencies important? Today, we'll be covering everything you need to know to get the right RAM for your system. More »






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This USB Drive Is Thicker than a Penny and Holds 2TB [Video]






The thumb drive you see in this video is thicker than the opposable digit of an infant—and yet it can hold up to 2TB of data. More »






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This Is What Happens When You Daisy-Chain 200,000 Hard Drives [Monster Machines]






120 petabytes, 120 million gigabytes, 24 billion MP3s, 1 trillion files. That's how much IBM's new storage array holds—nearly an order of magnitude more data than the largest current system, making ...
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Watching Ostriches Sleep With Their Eyes Open Is More Exciting Than it Looks [Video]






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JEDEC Reveals Key Aspects of DDR4

DDR3 made its debut in mid-2007 when Intel released P35 chipset with support for DDR3. Today nearly all desktop, mobile and server platforms support DDR3. iSuppli estimates that DDR3 will account for roughly 90% of DRAM sales this year. However, the ne...
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Color-Match Your USB Sticks to Your Other Pantone Tat [Memory]






I was just browsing Pantone's site—y'know, eyeing up their markers—when I noticed they sell customizable Pantone USB sticks. Not a bad little present for a design-fiend, and they start at just...
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How Researchers Fit a Blu-Ray of Data Onto a Millimeter of Glass [Memory]






Researchers at Southampton University have devised a way to bend light passing through a glass wafer so it can store and read 50GB of data in the same way that fiber optic cable does. More »...
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What If Samsung Stopped Supplying Parts For the iPhone 4? [Apple]






This is all hypothetical, but what would happen to the iPhone 4 if Apple's vigorous legal campaign against Samsung caused an irreparable rift between the two companies? More »





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AMD to Enter RAM Market with Radeon-branded DDR3

AMD's website suggests that the company will be entering the RAM market soon with their own RAM modules. The modules will be branded as Radeon, just like AMD's GPUs. At first, AMD will launch three series: Entertainment, ULTRA PRO Gaming and En...
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Internet Use Proven To Affect Your...Uh...Memory [Tech]






I know a grand total of about five phone numbers off by heart. One is mine — not the landline, though, still have to double-check that one — and one is my parents', who haven't changed their n...
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Search Engines Change How Memory Works

Thanks to search engines, most simple facts don’t need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory — and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained.
A study...
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Give Buddy a Break: More Isn’t Better for Training Your Dog

Dog owners teaching their pooches to sit, come when called, and stop the shoe-chewing are better off giving their dogs breaks, rather than daily drills.
Beagles trained once or twice a week for a short period learn more between sessions than those taught...
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This Is Probably the Slowest Instant Camera Ever [Video]






Niklas Roy is a self-described inventor of useless thing and among his creations is an Electronic Instant Camera. It's an interesting hybrid that uses a black & white video camera and a thermal printer t...
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Rumor: Updated MacBook Airs Will Be Extra-Speedy With 400Mbps NAND Flash Storage [Blip]


It's expected that Apple will update the MacBook Air line this July, but with what, exactly? According to components manufacturers that the Japanese website Macotakara.jp spoke to, they'll include the latest 19-nanometer NAND chips which h...
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Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain [Science]






Imagine you can insert a memory card in your brain and go all Keanu Wow, I know Jiu-Jitsu! Reeves. It's actually not that far away: Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things...
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Samsung's 1TB Drive is the First 9mm For Ultraportable Laptops [Memory]






But as one of our interns put it, "what kind of jerk would put a HDD in an ultraportable though?" That pair of 500GB platters will be a nice upgrade though, if you fork out $129 for it. [Engadget] More...
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Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On [Guts]






Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. More »
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Take Control of Your Mac's Memory Usage [How To]






Mac OS X is a slick, powerful operating system, but there's a cost to all that gloss. Most users don't ever bother to check, but many of the apps they use every day are notorious RAM-gobblers, eating up h...
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How skillful advertisers can word-jack your brain [Mad Science]






It's long been established that the mighty brain is nothing but a mound of putty. We don't see what we think we do, we don't remember what we think we do, and we don't like what we think we do. If we d...
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The World's First 64GB MicroSD [Memory]






MicroSDs are cute and so incredibly useful. Kingmax, a Taiwanese company, is making them even more useful by bumping the size up to 64GB. It's the world's first 64GB microSD card. More »
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Seagate's New Hard Drive Transfers Media To and From Your iPhone, Android or Tablet Over Wi-Fi [Memory]






It must be scary, offering traditional storage in these cloud-based times. Seagate's obviously thought long and hard over this one, and whacked Wi-Fi into their new GoFlex 500GB drive, so you can store/dr...
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Just You Try and Stick a Floppy Disk Into This Atari MicroSD Card Reader [Memory]






Made using a 3D printer, this microSD card reader resembles an Atari 810 floppy disk drive, and can transfer data from 8GB cards to the old Atari it's hooked up to. Moore's Law at work? [Rossum via HackAD...
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Study Takes Monkey Memory to New Level

























The ability of rhesus macaques to draw shapes from memory suggests that monkeys may have as-yet-unexplored powers of recall, possibly similar in some ways to human remembrance.
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These Tiny Canon USB Sticks Don't Take Photos, Only Store 'Em [Cameras]






The mini Canon 5D DSLR flash drive of the other year has a couple of similarly-statured friends joining him at the flash-storage convention: an IXUS 200IS compact camera and Legra HD camcorder version. Bo...
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Subtle SSD Vendor Change Gives MacBook Air a Subtle Speed Boost [Blip]


Apple uses multiple vendors in interchangeable ways to make a single product, but rarely if ever do performance specs change when this happens. Not so with the MacBook Air! The Toshiba bits that are inside my Air, from October, are actually...
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Facebook Helps Stave Off Memory Loss In Elderly
Seniors might stave off memory loss by frequenting Facebook, a new study suggests.

The social network is just what the doctor ordered for older folks who are like-minded and can find enjoyment in photo-sharing, and copious discussions about such topics a...
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Self-Erasing Toshiba Drive Foils Thieves and Forgetful Owners [Memory]






I applaud the logic behind Toshiba's self-erasing drives, which uses encryptions to recognize which machine it's in. If taken out and used in another PC, the encryption keys destroy the data, and voila, n...
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Hide Valuable Memory Cards in the USB Stick Docking Station of Dreams [Concepts]






Currently, I have microSDs spread all around my house—I'm sure I could find a couple if I searched hard enough, but the bulk-majority are probably lost in the dusty corners for good. A USB stick tha...
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Sleepwalkers Replay Day’s Learning

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 


A video of what appears to be a sleeping woman doing a modified, slow-motion funky robot dance in bed may represent the most direct evidence yet that minds replay a day’s learning during slumber.
Much r...
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Engineered Viruses Boost Memory Recall in Mice

By John Timmer, Ars Technica
Memories fade with time, often to the annoyance of those who can’t recall important details. But scientists have now found a way to boost the recall of memories even after they’ve started to fade. Unfortunate...
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