First Diablo 4 expansion pack combines new class with old memories

Blizzard has announced the first expansion pack for the CRPG game Diablo 4. It’s called Vessel of Hatred, and the company says it will bring a brand new class “never seen before in the Diablo universe.” The first Diablo 4 expansion pack will also allow players to hack & slash their way through hoards of […]

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Google Photos gets big redesign with scrapbook-like Memories, AI-powered titles

According to an official blog post, Google Photos is getting a big redesign with a new update. The latest update brings a revamped navigation bar and a redesigned ‘Memories’ feature. As per Google, the new update that is rolling out today on mobile introduces a scrapbook-like ‘Memories’ feature. Notably, you can view all of your […]

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Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones

The tiny foragers are also “remarkable learners” that can remember something after a single exposure to it, Crossley said. In the new study, the researchers peered deep into the snails’ brains to figure out what happened at the neurological level when they were acquiring memories. Coaxing Memories In their experiments, the researchers gave the snails […]

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How Your Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, too. But in the 1990s, neuroimaging studies revealed that parts of the brain that were thought to be active only during sensory perception are also active during the recall of memories. “It started to raise […]

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This Brain Molecule Decides Which Memories Are Happy—or Terrible

Further evidence of this bias comes from the reaction of the mice when they were first put into learning situations. Before they knew whether the new associations would be positive or negative, the release of neurotensin from their thalamic neurons decreased. The researchers speculate that new stimuli are assigned a more negative valence automatically until […]

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Google Photos gets Memories revamp with added vertical swipe gesture on Android

According to the latest report, Google Photos is receiving the Memories design revamp with added vertical swipe gestures. The feature was recently announced, and it will bring the look and feel of the story-inspired section on the top carousel of the Google Photos app that has been available on mobile and desktop since 2019. The […]

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Google Photos update brings Collage editor, better and shareable Memories

Google is seeding a big update to its Photos app, calling it the biggest update for Memories since the feature’s inception in 2020. Google adds that Memories is very popular, netting more than 3.5 billion views per month. Memories have been redesigned to be more dynamic. A big focus has been placed on videos and […]

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Google Photos update brings redesigned memories, collage editor, memory sharing

Google Photos is getting a new update today. While the update brings a ton of features across the app, Google says that this update brings the biggest changes to Memories since the feature was launched in 2019. This includes a redesign of how Memories work, full Cinematic Memories, Styles, and the ability to share Memories […]

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Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories

In the moment between reading a phone number and punching it into your phone, you may find that the digits have mysteriously gone astray—even if you’ve seared the first ones into your memory, the last ones may still blur unaccountably. Was the 6 before the 8 or after it? Are you sure? Maintaining such scraps […]

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