Asus prepares 12-inch tablet for CES
Asus apparently has some serious plans for the tablet market and plans to show its Eee Pad EP121 tablet at this years CES 2011 next month. Despite earlier rumours, it looks like this 12-inch slate will pack a punch with a Core i5 CPU paired up with a Windows 7 OS. The detailed specs are apparently left for the unveiling at CES 2011, but the teaser video shows that we are looking at a 12-inch slate with HDMI, USB, card reader and camera. It will support full HD playback, might have a support for both finger and pen control as well as some kind of easy keyboard support.
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Firefox 4 beta 8 released
Developers of Firefox are working diligently on the next major release, and have announced that the eighth beta of Firefox 4 is now available for download. Since beta seven, which was released last month, was feature complete, beta eight is really just a collection of bug fixes and performance tweaks. That doesn't mean it's a small update, though, and literally hundreds of bugs have been squashed.
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Majority of American customers actively avoiding 3D TV
Nielsen found in a new study that most people in North America not only aren't buying 3D TVs but are consciously avoiding them. About 59 percent of those in the US and Canada said they would definitely not buy a 3D TV within the next year. Only six percent said they would likely buy a set, while exactly a third said they either weren't sure or were unlikely; just two percent has a set. The trend carried over to a lesser extent in Europe, where 45 percent were certain they wouldn't buy a 3D TV while only 15 percent said they probably or definitely would buy soon. Demand was more favorable in other parts of the world despite the increased price barriers in many of those areas.
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Researchers packed 90GB in 1g of bacteria
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have successfully shown how to store encrypted data in bacteria. A colony of E.coli was used for the experiment, with the equivalent of the United States Declaration of Independence stored in the DNA of eighteen bacterial cells. As 10 million cells are present in one gram of biological material, this would translate to a data storage capacity of 90GB. Data can also be encrypted thanks to the natural process of site-specific genetic recombination. Information is scrambled by recombinase genes, the actions of which are controlled by a transcription factor.
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