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27 Sep 09

Microsoft researcher converts his brain into 'e-memory' - CNN.com

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But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences.
By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable. Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.

12 Jan 09

How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com

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27 Apr 08

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The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.

No cables, no waiting, no hassles.

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12 Apr 08

Misinformation: Seeing is believing

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The researchers concluded that repetition of news stories assisted in the creation of false memories and that corrected misinformation did not change people's beliefs unless they were skeptical of the information to begin with.
"We found that people suspicious of the motivations underlying the war successfully discounted misinformation, whereas those who thought the war was fought to destroy WMDs tended not to discount the original discredited version of events," the researchers stated. "Because they were less suspicious overall, participants in America showed less sensitivity to the correction of misinformation than those in Australia and Germany who were sensitive to corrections of misinformation."
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- The results of the research showed that German and Australian respondents were sensitive to corrected information while Americans were not. This is especially evident when analyzing the data on WMDs. "Although all samples on average correctly indicated that no WMDs had been found in Iraq," the report states, "a substantial minority of Americans exhibited false memory that they were discovered."