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Computing

128GB NAND Chips Promise SD Cards With Terabytes Of Storage

Mobile 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.

Computing

IBM’s 3D RAM Will Make Your 2D RAM Irrelevant

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.

November 18, 2011
Science

Walking Through Doorways Causes You To Forget

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. Yep. The door.

October 26, 2011
Science

Yale Stores Data Mechanically — With Frickin’ Lasers

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 and new techniques in optical telecommunications.

October 13, 2011
Science

Sex Can Literally Blow Your Mind

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.

September 22, 2011
Science

Why Your Wife Remembers Everything Barry White Sang

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 in Scotland determined that women are more likely to remember something when spoken to in a low-pitch voice.

September 2, 2011
Computing

Memory Buyer’s Guide: The Best RAM For Your PC

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.

August 31, 2011
Computing

This USB Drive Is Thinner Than A Coin And Holds 2TB

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

August 30, 2011
Computing

This Is What Happens When You Daisy-Chain 200,000 Hard Drives

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 it the biggest hard drive array ever built.

August 24, 2011
Computing

iPad Users Have Nearly Twice The Memory Of Their Android Counterparts

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At yesterday’s Seagate Satellite launch, Seagate’s BS Teh, Senior Vice President & Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Japan shared some interesting analysis of the current state of storage on mobile and PC devices. Despite the fixed memory status of the iPad, it appears that they’re still outstripping Android by nearly double.

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