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Joseph James DeAngelo

Serial killer suspect identified using DNA family tree website

27 April 2018

A serial killer active in California decades ago may finally have been identified using genetic sequences the suspect’s distant relatives gave to a website
Video-game players

Now Play This! A festival that's game for anything

19 April 2018

Ideas held centre stage, and technology was kept in its place, over a weekend of games at London's Somerset House

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