News tagged with memory capacity

Latest Apple iPhone to hit China on January 13

Apple on Wednesday announced that the latest version of its hot-selling iPhones will be released in China and 21 other countries on January 13.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Battery-powered Christmas carol: A trip down memory (effect) lane

(PhysOrg.com) -- As consumers anticipate unwrapping the latest electronic gadget during the holidays, they may not give much thought to how long their shiny devices will last. But it's a topic under significant ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seagate soups up laptop PC performance with fast, second-generation solid state hybrid drive

Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal computers. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 12

Scientists watch a next-generation ferroelectric memory bit switch in real time

For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Psychologists defend the importance of general abilities

“What makes a great violinist, physicist, or crossword puzzle solver? Are experts born or made? The question has intrigued psychologists since psychology was born—and the rest of us, too, who may secretly fantasize ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

iPhone 4S big hit in Hong Kong's grey market

Apple's iPhone 4S was on sale on Hong Kong's grey market at the weekend, attracting hundreds of fans paying up to six times official prices to get their hands on the latest model.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Research sheds light on origins of greatness

What makes people great? Popular theorists such as the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell and the New York Times' David Brooks argue that intelligence plays a role -- but only up to a point. Beyond that, they say, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop hardware encryption for new computer memory technology

Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

When words get hot, mental multitaskers collect cool

How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Missing the gorilla: Why we don't see what's right in front of our eyes

University of Utah psychologists have learned why many people experience "inattention blindness" – the phenomenon that leaves drivers on cell phones prone to traffic accidents and makes a gorilla invisible ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Being in a good mood may lead to poor memory

Most people have had trouble remembering something they just heard. Now, a University of Missouri researcher found that forgetfulness may have something to do with being in a good mood. Elizabeth Martin, a doctoral student ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like ".jpg" or ".png" signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format, reducing ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New data storage method optimized

Increasingly more memory on increasingly smaller surfaces; the storage capacity on mobile equipment is improving every day. Johan Engelen from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Gadget show to bring fiercer competition to iPad

(AP) -- Apple Inc.'s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting and ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 6