Micron claims that memory product prices stabilized at the end of the quarter and have increased slightly since then.

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Yian Gu, postdoctoral researcher in neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, who studies the relationship between diet and Alzheimer's, said the study looks promising if the claims of memory improvement hold up, but noted that further research should be done to confirm those results.

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But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.

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Still, the foc.us is one of a few tDCS headsets designed for the consumer market and can, the inventor Michael Oxley claims, improve your working or short-term memory when the electrodes are placed on your prefrontal cortex.

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Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).

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But although such claims are frightening, and the more so the more distant the memory of the disease, they should be subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny as any other apparent scientific discovery especially by the reviewers and editors of influential journals.

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Secure Wrap claims its plastic is the only one in the world with "shrink memory" that causes it to pull back if it is cut, making it impossible to conceal tampering, says new business director Nicholas Valdespino, Daniel's brother.

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Figure in the cost of the memory plus the larger circuit boards needed for rival systems, and the VideoLogic-NEC team claims its system costs hardware makers half as much as one using older technologies.

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