KIOXIA teases future-gen 1000-layers of flash memory inside of SSDs that could have gigantic 20TB NVMe SSDs that would cost as little as $250.
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In pausing to think before making an important decision, we may imagine the potential outcomes of different choices we could make. While this “mental simulation” is central to how we plan and make decisions in everyday life, how the brain works to accomplish this is not well understood.
An international team of scientists has now uncovered neural mechanisms used in planning. Its results, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, suggest that an interplay between the brain’s prefrontal cortex and hippocampus allows us to imagine future outcomes in order to guide our decisions.
“The prefrontal cortex acts as a ‘simulator,’ mentally testing out possible actions using a cognitive map stored in the hippocampus,” explains Marcelo Mattar, an assistant professor in New York University’s Department of Psychology and one of the paper’s authors.
“There was this gigantic river system”: Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.
Rather than living longer, otherwise healthy people who took daily multivitamins were slightly more likely (4%) than non-users to die in the study period, according to researchers.
Researchers reported nearly 165,000 deaths occurring during the follow-up period of the study, out of the initial group of 390,000 participants.
CocoaPods patches critical vulnerabilities that exposed thousands of iOS and macOS apps to supply chain attacks.
South Korea’s SK Hynix is betting $74.6 billion on a move that could reshape the semiconductor industry and the future of AI computing.
Summary: Advances in organoids and embryonic models raise questions about human individuality. A new study argues these models can reinforce, not weaken, the concept of human individuality when viewed through personhood and sentience frameworks.
Researchers emphasize that current technologies are far from achieving personhood in embryo models or organoids. The ethical focus should remain on the wellbeing of actual persons and sentient beings.
Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine are working on a cost-effective, CRISPR-Cas12a-based pathogen detection tool.