Crime scene DNA test results in minutes rather than weeks or months. It’s a new technology now in the hands of investigators at the King County Sheriff’s Office. It’s called the Rapid DNA machine.

Evidence derived from cutting-edge DNA technology that prosecutors say points directly at Rex Heuermann being the Gilgo Beach serial killer will be admissible at his trial, a Suffolk County judge ...

Imagine a large data centre of this kind: it has no semiconductor chips, it consumes no energy, its land footprint is small, and yet it stores far more information than any of today’s hyperscale data ...