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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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Recreational Drug Creates Out-of-Body Illusions

A popular “club drug” promises to open a scientific window on the strange world of out-of-body experiences, researchers say.
Recreational users of a substance called ketamine often report having felt like they left their bodies or underwent other bizarr...
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How an Ordinary Man Became a Memory Master [Mindhack]


This weekend's NYT Magazine has a fascinating first-person account of how an ordinary, forgetful guy became a world-class memory athlete in just one year. Find out how imagining the Incredible Hulk riding a stationary bike with a pair of ho...
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Disposable USB Sticks, For Those Sad Memories You Don't Mind Losing [Designs]






The creative minds of Art Lebedev have once again thought of something interesting to do in the USB world—cardboard. The design team's concept "Fleshkus" memory sticks are supplied on printed card, ...
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How to Hack Your Brain [Video]






You are not who you think you are. Your personality and identity is significantly more malleable than you realize. With a few simple tricks, you can exploit your brain's innate functionality to change j...
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Sleeping Protects Memories From Corruption

“You must remember this,” Sam the piano player crooned to Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. The couple might have recalled even more about their days in Paris if they’d been napping when Sam played the tune again.
Replaying memories whil...
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Browser Speed Tests: IE 9, Firefox 4 Beta, Chrome's Crankshaft, and Opera 11 Beta [Performance Tests]






Google's got a new "Crankshaft" in its bleeding-edge Chrome, Internet Explorer 9 is out to prove its modern mettle, Firefox 4 is nearly complete, and Opera's adding extensions. It's a good time to put the...
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A Brief 0.07-Second Power Outage Completely Halts Production at a Factory [PowerOutage]






A very, very brief power outage at a Toshiba factory forced the company to completely halt operations at the critical plant. This could mean as much as a 20% drop in chip shipments which could lead to pro...
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The Next Time You Move Out, Leave A Time Capsule Behind The Light Switch [TimeCapsule]






Maybe I'm a sensitive fool, but I've always had a hard time moving out of a place I call home. That's why I'm going to follow these instructions to leave a "time capsule" note behind light switches from n...
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Minimalist SD Reader Also Looks Like a Toaster [CardReader]






There's usually nothing very interesting about transferring files off an SD card. But! Elecom's newest, adorable little reader lets you pop in four of your cards (SD, microSD, and miniSD) at once. Then, s...
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Playboy's Hard Drive Has 250GB of Vintage Issues For Your "Perusal" [Playboy]






Got National Geographic's external hard drive on your Christmas wish list? You may want to replace it with Playboy's $300 250GB drive which contains every single issue of Playboy, from vintage 1953 gals t...
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Memory FAIL


Now where the [bleep] did I put my purse?



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RAW STEEL Laughs at Other Weak, Pathetic SD Cards [MemoryCard]






Yes, it sounds like the name of a male stripper, but this RAW STEEL SD card by Hoodman means serious business. Plated in (you guessed it!) steel and waterproofed with epoxy, the card should survive longer...
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MacBook Air's SSDs Will Be Sold to Other Companies by Toshiba [Guts]






The very same Toshiba SSDs that Apple uses in its MacBook Airs are now being offered to other companies who may or may not be green-eyed with envy at the slinkiness of the Airs. More »

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Love Makes You Increasingly Ignorant of Your Partner

BASEL, Switzerland — Long-lasting marriages may thrive on love, compromise and increasing ignorance about one another. Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another’s food, movie and kitchen-design preferences than do partners wh...
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Flash Memory May Be 10,000 Times Faster In Just Three Years [Guts]


Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It's fast! But ReRAM—a joint project of Sharp and Elipa—promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialize it by 2013. What's that mean for you? More ...
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Why Are the Effects of Marijuana So Unpredictable? [Marijuana]






Alcohol is mostly predictable. When we drink a beer (or three), we know how we are going to feel. The effects of marijuana are a lot more difficult to judge, for a number of reasons. More »...
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Gb4less Finds the Lowest Per-Gigabyte Storage and Memory Deals [Deals]






If you've just found your backup religion, or you're always in need of ever more storage, gb4less is an interesting place to start looking. The shopping filter finds the best dollar-per-gigabyte deals on ...
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Mini Info Is a Thorough and Easy To Read Android System Monitor [Downloads]






Android: The problem with most system monitors is that they present the information to you in only one way, take it or leave it. Mini Info fits battery charge, local memory, and/or SD memory monitoring al...
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Ready to Form Voltron USB Stick! Activate Interlocks! [Usb Sticks]






It's not pocket-sized, nor can it be lent to colleagues without experiencing a glimpse of fear it won't be returned, but the Voltron Lionforce Defender 2GB USB stick does come pre-loaded with a remastered...
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This Nitrogen-Cooled Memory Block Broke the World's Speed Record [PC]






These are memory sticks, two 1 GB Corsair Dominator GTX6 DDR3 RAM modules. They usually run at 2625MHz, but these zoom at the new world's speed record: 3078MHz. All thanks to the special nitrogen freezer ...
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The World's New Fastest SDHC Memory Card [Memory]


Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I is the fastest in the world. The new 8, 16, and 32GB memory cards are compliant with the SD 3.0 USH104 standard. More »






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This Tiny Thing is Actually a 64GB SSD From SanDisk [Memory]






It's a new world record, this time in the "smallest SSD" category. Available in 4GB - 64GB capacities, SanDisk's integrated iSSD is destined for tablets and really, really slim laptops. More &raqu...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDRAM (Memory): But Were Afraid to Ask



It started off as a simple enough memory review, but somewhere along the way we decided to dramatically expand  the scope of our discussion and avoid the monotony of a typical memory piece. The end result? An in-depth look at some of the more fu...
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Stimulating Your Brain With Electricity Can Boost Visual Memory [Brains]






Struggling to remember faces? Forgetting how your favorite Backstreet Boys member looks? Help could be on its way in the form of the first non-invasive way of stimulating the brain that can boost visual m...
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Repost: Giz Explains SSD [Ssds]






Seagate and Samsung, giants of hard drives and flash memory, respectively, will work together to develop technologies for SSD storage devices. Now would be a fine time to brush up on (and covet) the great...
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SD Cards Get High-Performance Indicators [Sd]






Shopping for SD cards has gotten a little bit easier, assuming you keep up-to-date on the latest SDXC/SDHC product iconography. Henceforth, products with bus-interface speeds up to 104MBps will carry a UH...
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iPhone 4 to Double iPad's RAM With 512MB [Unconfirmed]






MacRumors is reporting that iPhone 4 will pack 512MB of RAM, twice that of the 3GS and the iPad and on par with competitors like the Evo 4G. That's huge, for you and developers both. More »
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Imagine Toshiba's 128GB NAND Flash Memory In Your Next Phone [Memory]






They invented flash memory, so it's only fitting that Toshiba has now produced another world first for NAND memory: the first with 128GB of capacity. Just think what media you could store on your phone wi...
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Nice, elegant design - a slide maybe from the 70ties. Captured in Kazanlak.Visit Monochrome Weekend!
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The Gadgets That Preserve Our Memories [Memory]






The woman in this photo is an employee at the Library of Congress. She is using a high-tech scanner to map the individual chemical components of a century-old book in order to learn how to better preserve...
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The Kinkiest USB Sticks Around [Concepts]






These are bound to be the dirtiest USB sticks you'll ever see. Each stick depicts both the male and female gender symbols, yet can piggyback onto another stick like some bizarre sex game. More &ra...
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DVDs Could Hold 1,000x Capacity of Blu-rays With New Japanese Research [DVDs]






While we're waiting for the Blu-ray Disc Association to upgrade discs to 128GB capacity, Japanese scientists have found a way to increase DVD capacity by 1,000 times—using just a slick of metal mate...
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The Day of the Letters
Today all Bulgarian people celebrate the Day of the Bulgarian education and culture, and of the Cyrillic alphabet. After a parade and official ceremony people lay down flowers beneath the memorial of the holy brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in front o...
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Worry Not, Copenhagen. Metallica’s Vocalist Sucks Just as Bad.
Apparently, one poor Dutch bastard has been reviled for not knowing the words to Metallica’s “Seek and Destroy.” During their July 2009 show, Metallica’s rhythm guitar and vocalist, James Hetfield, shoved the mic in front of an ov...
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The Blueprint To All Our Data Is Hidden Inside This Mountain Fortress [Preservation]






In the snowy Swiss Alps, behind a three and a half ton door that could withstand a nuclear attack and beyond a maze of passageways, scientists are depositing a capsule containing everything future generat...
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Fastest Memory Race Heats Up - Corsair Announces 2533MHz DDR3

The whole 'fastest memory' halo product race is a bit of a farce.  In terms of DDR3, Corsair started the race back in 2007 with their first set of Dominator modules, running at 1600Mhz, 10-8-8-24.  This has been followed and bested, ma...
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Another Format Bites The Dust: Sony Discontinues Floppy Disks [Memory]






What, wait? Sony's been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that's not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011. [Aki...
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Kids Say the Darndest Things
And they have incredible incredible recall skills… Unlike Mommy, who will assuredly have no idea where the little darling learned that after she says it during Church, at Grandmas for a family dinner and to that bloody annoying pre-K teacher whoR...
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Samsung 20nm NAND Flash Memory Being Tested [Memory]






Samsung's following up its 30nm NAND chips from 2007 with some even-smaller 20nm ones. Write-speed is 30 per cent faster than the previous cards supposedly, and are being tested in up to 64GB SD cards bef...
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When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp [Time]






Understanding how the brain perceives the passage of time could lead to treatments for mental illnesses. Why does time seem to slow down during a life-threatening situation? Our reporter falls 15 stories ...
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Brain-Like Memristors Could Revolutionize Memory Chips at the Atomic Level [Memristors]






The brainiacs at H.P. think they've discovered a way to replace transistors with technology that will shrink chips to the atomic scale. Emphasis on "brain." More »






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This Just In: G.Skill Giveaway Goodies

Before the new site launched I demoed a new feature I'd been toying with called This Just In. The idea is to give you guys a quick glance at what I'm working on (and eventually what the entire team is working on) as soon as something new arrive...
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