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A New Device Could Make Memory Implants a Reality

By mimicking the way neurons fire in the hippocampus during natural memory creation, a brain implant was used to successfully plant memories in the brains of rats. Though human implementation is far off, this breakthrough in cracking the hippocampus' mathematical "memory code" has very important implications for health and research.
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IBM Chief: Computers Will Soon be Smarter Than Humans

Over the next three decades, that amount of data we encounter daily is expected to rise to over four zetabytes according to Northwester University psychology professor Paul Reber. Rob High, IBM Watson's vice president chief technology officer, believes that cognitive computing is the answer to this increase in data – and IBM is already working on it.
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We Just Found New Evidence of Water on Mars

The Mars Curiosity rover has found slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that NASA believes could be mud cracks that formed about 3 billion years ago. This discovery adds to the growing amount of evidence that Mars was once a wet planet on which life could have survived.
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