When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for ...

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Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...