At least in the short term, the biggest opportunities for flash memory in computers probably involve combining flash memory and HDDs.

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But if you're stuck, as we have been, with the slowest economic recovery in modern memory, most people would probably say it was better for the long-term health of the country to have more people working, less productively, than to have rising productivity but also higher unemployment.

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Mr Gamm appeared to be using his long-term memory to store the working results that he needed to complete his calculations for example, all the dividends and remainders of a division sum.

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Moreover, the fact that Mr Barak has fallen so swiftly from favour among his coalition partners and his own party faithful for exhibiting precisely those same qualities, makes the memory of Mr Netanyahu's rocky first term less embarrassing.

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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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