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N.J. court gives suspect ‘trade secret’ access to DNA software allegedly linking him to murder [nj.com]
A state appeals court has ruled that a Hudson County murder suspect should be given access to the source codes of the cutting-edge DNA software that prosecutors say links his saliva to evidence in a 2017 shooting that killed a man and injured a child.
It’s the first time New Jersey courts have discussed the emerging field of probabilistic genotyping, which mathematically analyzes DNA samples. Such technology “marks a profound shift in DNA forensics,” the state appeals court said in a 74-page published ruling Wednesday.
College freshman from N.J. designs COVID-themed chessboard [nj.com]
As The Queen’s Gambit fervor continues to sweep the nation, a college freshman has combined the only two things that seem to be on everybody’s mind of late: COVID-19 and chess.
The unlikely mash-up resulted in a “COVID-19 Quarantine Essentials” chessboard, whose checkered squares sit atop a first-aid box fau00e7ade and which features a Clorox bottle as the knight, toilet paper as the bishop and Purell as the queen.
The brainchild of William Paterson University freshman Nicholas Montesano, 18, the design came about after 3D Design Professor Henry Yoo assigned students to create a themed chess board. Inspired by the pandemic, Montesano ditched his earlier concepts, like a cartoon or skyscraper theme, and opted for something timelier and more resonant.
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