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First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector

Posted by timothy on from the ok-now-complain-about-it dept.

tad001 writes "The Daily Mail has pictures of Apple's new mini connector. The photograph, shared by French tech website nowhereelse.fr, shows two components, one of which is said to be similar to another apparently leaked picture of a part of the new iPhone. As well as the new dock connector, the part also seems to take in the headphone jack and the home button connector for the hotly awaited devices."

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  1. But Read/Write Speeds are atrocious by coldandcalculating · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The fastest DNA polymerases can copy a template at around 250 bases/sec. Chemical DNA synthesis is much slower.

    As for read speeds, DNA sequencing can be done serially (500-800 bases in a matter of hours - 1 cent per base) or massively parallel (100-200 bases per read; 100 million reads; overnight - $1000 per chip by year's end?)

    Tools allowing for rapid synthesis (write) and sequencing (read) of DNA would enable a biotech revolution similar in scope and impact to the computing revolution of the last century. As far as I know, this technology is still incredibly far away, but definitely merits relentless R&D.