Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form -- an implicit form of memory -- in a very simple animal.

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In the past, people would try to make a form of non-volatile memory by connecting a static, volatile memory chip to a battery.

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Three had suffered from mild cognitive impairment - a more severe form of memory loss than that associated with ageing but less severe than Alzheimer's.

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To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.

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Other than minor screen size disparities, the 16GB built-in memory of the N96 and the fresh candybar form of the N79, these three phones are pretty much exactly identical on specs, and yet the N96 manages to be inexcusably bulky, while the N79 sports an inexcusably terrible screen -- we're hoping that was just the prototype being funky, but we saw two versions with the same problem.

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It was among the first general-purpose computers capable of storing programs in rewritable memory, which took the form of mercury delay lines.

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The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.

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