Memory News
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A study conducted at Cornell University determined posting experiences on Facebook and other social media sites helps improve a person's memory. This was the first study of its kind although it has been known writing down experiences helps improve memory.
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Samsung has announced the world's highest-capacity 2.5-inch SSD designed for the consumer market. The drive can store up to 4TB of data, the same as a high-end hard drive, while outperforming mechanical disks on every metric and using less power.
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Samsung has announced the world's first UFS removable memory cards for mobile devices, available in capacities up to 256 gigabytes. UFS is the replacement for the ubiquitous microSD used by current smartphones and offers huge performance improvements.
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One of the lasting effects of West Nile virus, for some sufferers, is neurological problems including memory loss. A new study links this to an immune reaction.
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Having trouble remembering important things, such as names for a business meeting, studying for an exam, or a list groceries? The answer is to exercise, and to time the exercise 4 hours after reading or hearing the thing you want to recall.
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A new app is seeking to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning to the iPhone, giving you an "intelligent memory" inside your smartphone. Snips has modelled the way humans learn to create an app that sorts and links all your data.
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A new study into the effects of long-term stress has shown the condition can affect brain inflammation and that this, in turn, affects short-term memory function.
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Columbia University researchers have found that deficits in social memory (which is connected with schizophrenia) is associated with a decrease in certain brain cells.
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A pair of researchers claim to have developed a new system for generating super-secure, memorable passwords that is based around rhyming poetry. The resulting phrases would take five million years to crack, based on the performance of today's computers.
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Montreal -
It's happened to all of us. We see a familiar face but we can't quite place the name of the person, sometimes leading to embarrassment. Researchers have pinpointed the best way to put a name to a face.
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A new study indciates that people who exercise willpower could suffer impaired memory function, via the draining of shared brain mechanisms and structures.
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A new method of engineering the processors that power computers could result in chips with 1000 times the performance of today's best offerings, according to a group of researchers.
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By AFP
Derby -
Queen Elizabeth II will become Britain's longest-reigning monarch on Wednesday after over 63 years on the throne.
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Google has updated its Chrome web browser with several new features designed to make the browsing experience feel much faster, especially on low-end devices. There are also some major improvements to battery life, another traditional issue in Chrome.
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Samsung has created the world's highest-capacity hard drive, cramming 16TB of file storage space into a unit that fits into a 2.5-inch bay. Even more significant is that the drive is actually an SSD based around 3D NAND chips and not a hard drive at all.
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Samsung has admitted that a major software defect on its new flagship handset, the Galaxy S6, is causing some phones to run excruciatingly slowly when compared with the stated specifications. A fix is on the way but some users aren't happy.
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New York -
Fruit flies learn and remember a preference for lower-calorie typical lab nutrition over high-calorie food, according to a new study.
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A major Apple blogger has revealed that the company is actually responsible for the creation of the new reversible USB Type-C standard. The tech giant then gave it to the relevant bodies to encourage larger adoption by other companies.
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London -
In a new study, researchers have demonstrated the occurrence of false memories in bumblebees. This is a pattern that seems to occur in other bees as well.
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New malware has been discovered in the wild that can allow attackers complete access to a domain, able to login as any user without the need for authentication.
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New York -
In a new study, chocolate was found to improve the memory of people aged between aged 50 to 69. Sounds good? The only catch is that you would need to consume an excessive amount of chocolate to achieve the memory feat.
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Harvard researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital reported that the practice of mindfulness meditation can physically alter regions of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.
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Memories don't just happen on their own. You have to, quite literally, pay attention. "The process [of memory] starts with our attention," Michele L. Brennan explains at Psych Central.
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Trans fats found in junk food are renowned for creating obesity and heart disease, but now it has been proven that they damage the functioning of the brain as well.
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New York -
If you find you have become more forgetful lately, you may want to consider munching on some dark chocolate according to a study released on Sunday.
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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what’s the impact of a single photo on our brains and memory, and how is our social-media-saturated culture affecting our relationship with the photograph?
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Psychological researchers from the University of California in Irvine and Michigan State University have published findings suggesting that lack of sleep makes you susceptible to false memories.
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The growth and development of new neurons may explain why adults cannot remember being infants, according to a new study.
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The brain’s ability to properly store information about different scents can be disrupted by introducing new sensory stimulation during deep sleep. This is according research using mice.
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Drinking coffee straight after studying might help people remember information later, a new study suggests. With drinking coffee before studying, there was no improvement.
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Memory Image
A man thinking Jacob Botter
Samsung's next-generation UFS memory cards are designed to replace microSD and offer substantial performance improvements Samsung
Brain and memory Picower Institute for Memory and Learning
Samsung's next-generation UFS memory cards are designed to replace microSD and offer substantial performance improvements Samsung
Dr. Robert Singer and his team have gained insights into the molecular basis of the memory and how memories form in nerve cells Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Samsung's next-generation UFS memory cards are designed to replace microSD and offer substantial performance improvements Samsung
Spectrogram of pink noise (left) and white noise (right), shown with linear frequency axis (vertical) Wikimedia commons
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