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IBM Cloud Aids Shop Direct’s Path to Becoming World Class Digital Retailer

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Shop Direct Taps IBM Cloud to enable £50m Financial Services ‘Personalisation Programme’ to Accelerate Digital Transformation

LONDON and ARMONK, N.Y. – 27 Jan 2016: IBM today announced it has signed an agreement as part of a £50 million Personalisation Programme with Shop Direct to redesign the retailer’s financial services platform that will be hosted and managed through IBM’s hybrid cloud. The new platform will provide Shop Direct customers with a wide range of innovative, personalized financial services products to help make the retailers world famous brands even more affordable to customers. (more…)

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Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks

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AUSTIN, Texas — Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical activity called gamma waves, report neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin.

The research, published in the journal Neuron on April 17, may provide insight into the cognitive and memory disruptions seen in diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s, in which gamma waves are disturbed. (more…)

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