DNA may soon be used for storage

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	DNA may soon be used for storage Researchers at a UK-based bioinformatics school have stored .mp3 and text files in DNA material that they claim can last 10,000 years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage: Gov't Organizations Get the Best In January 2012, Aberdeen surveyed 106 enterprises spanning various sectors about how they're dealing with high-growth storage. This report looks at each component of hybrid cloud storage, as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data: on-premise with scale-out NAS or in the public cloud. Learn More In this Issue Now you can control a PC with your eyes Darlene Storm: Researchers exploit flaw to identify anonymous DNA donors and their families Martin Gomberg: The answer to gun violence might just be a smartphone on a chip Hitachi unveils first 10K rpm 1.2TB hard drive Now you can control a PC with your eyes Researchers at Fujitsu have developed a small, low-cost eye-tracking system that offers new ways to scoll around PC screens. Read More Darlene Storm: Researchers exploit flaw to identify anonymous DNA donors and their families There are lots of cool and creepy things happening in the area of DNA. From biological hard drives with a storage density to 2.2 petabytes per gram, to exploiting a vulnerability to expose identities of supposed anonymous genetic donors—and people in their family tree that never donated DNA, to DHS discussing potentially launching a "social conditioning campaign" so people won't freak out about plans to develop and deploy rapid DNA analyzers. Read More Martin Gomberg: The answer to gun violence might just be a smartphone on a chip There is a role for technology in gun safety. This is not the forum to discuss the politics, morality or civility of the question of guns or to weigh in for or against. It is however relevant that there are technologies available that will reduce gun violence today. What is needed are some prudent steps, transformational thinking and innovation in our approach to safety. Perhaps unexpectedly it is the most ubiquitous of technologies available today, the smartphone, that may offer a potential answer, or at least a direction, that may both satisfy the gun owner and provide safety to our communities and our public safety responders, if not today, in a not too distant tomorrow. Read More Hitachi unveils first 10K rpm 1.2TB hard drive Hitachi today announced the industrys highest-capacity 10,000rpm enterprise-class hard drive, the Ultrastar C10K1200. Read More
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