Daily Archives: March 27, 2012

AT&T’s Galaxy S II wants to play too, gets leaked Android 4.0 upgrade

AT&T’s Galaxy S II wants to play too, gets leaked Android 4.0 upgrade

AT&T’s Galaxy S II was probably feeling a little left out in the cold when its younger, LTE-gifted sibling got its ICS coat early. Fortunately, yet another software upgrade has broken cover, courtesy of Rootzwiki. Like anyone who’s wrestling with the Skyrocket leak yesterday, those with some know-how of Ice Cream builds and Odin installations … Continued

New Online Timeline Tool Available For Everyone

New Online Timeline Tool Available For Everyone

Following in the footsteps of Storify, a new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web. Timeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University, where Wise teaches. The interactive tool allows users to generate timelines on … Continued

MIT study: Light alone can activate specific memories

MIT study: Light alone can activate specific memories

Researchers say that using optogenetics to artificially reactivate memories could advance the study of neurodegenerative disorders. A transgenic mouse hippocampus. (Credit: Nikon Small World Gallery) In a famous surgery in the early 1900s, Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, trying to treat epilepsy, found that stimulating specific neurons while patients were under local anesthesia caused them to … Continued