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In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, bodies being processed through the new State Crime Lab in Taylorsville, Utah, are held in one of two large coolers. Housing the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office and the Department of Agriculture the new building features a ballistics firing range, vehicle processing bays, trace evidence labs, chemistry labs and a robotic DNA testing lab. Robotics will speed up the processing of DNA samples at the new Unified State Laboratory as Utah tries to cut through a backlog of rape kits, officials said at the lab's opening Thursday. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, the Department of Public Safety gives a tour of the new State Crime Lab in Taylorsville, Utah, while visiting the ballistics unit and the water tank used for firing weapons. Officials are hopeful Utah’s major rape kit backlog will be reduced now that a new state crime laboratory has opened where robotic machines can extract DNA samples and deliver them to forensic technicians much faster than humans. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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In the Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, representatives tour the body receiving room of the new State Crime Lab in Taylorsville, Utah. Housing the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office and the Department of Agriculture the new building features a ballistics firing range, vehicle processing bays, trace evidence labs, chemistry labs and a robotic DNA testing lab. Robotics will speed up the processing of DNA samples at the new Unified State Laboratory as Utah tries to cut through a backlog of rape kits, officials said at the lab's opening Thursday. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, the Department of Public Safety gives a tour of the new State Crime Lab in Taylorsville, Utah, including the ballistics unit where bullets are examined. Housing the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office and the Department of Agriculture the new building features a ballistics firing range, vehicle processing bays, trace evidence labs, chemistry labs and a robotic DNA testing lab. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, Utah State Crime Lab Director Jay Henry holds a sexual assault evidence collection kit as he speaks during committee meeting at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune reports a new Unified State Laboratory was opened Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Taylorsville, where Henry said the robotics station does the repetitive work of extracting DNA, then delivers the data to forensic scientists. In addition to freeing up a technician to do more analytical work, the station is capable of extracting DNA faster. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, file photo, a person stands near the Apple logo at the company's store in Grand Central Terminal, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, defendant Michelle Carter is seated inside Taunton Juvenile Court during a pretrial hearing in Taunton, Mass. Jury selection is set to begin Monday, June 5, 2017, in the trial of Carter who is accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. (Patrick Whittemore/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

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Karl Urban as Judge Dredd in "Dredd" and Van Diesel as Xander Cage in "xXx: Return of Xander Cage," now available on 4K Ultra HD.

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster rocket lands shortly after launching the Dragon spacecraft from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 3, 2017. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, June 3, 2017. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX is trying again to launch its first recycled supply ship to the International Space Station. Forecasters at Florida's Kennedy Space Center are cautiously optimistic storms won't halt Saturday afternoon's countdown like they did Thursday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX is trying again to launch its first recycled supply ship to the International Space Station. Forecasters at Florida's Kennedy Space Center are cautiously optimistic storms won't halt Saturday afternoon's countdown like they did Thursday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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Fans stand by the concession stand to avoid the rain during an NCAA college baseball regional between Delaware and Texas Tech, Friday, June 2, 2017, in Lubbock, Texas. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)

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Matt Damon and a whole bunch of ferocious creatures star in in "The Great Wall," now available on 4K Ultra HD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

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This Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, shows the Chrome logo displayed at a Google event, in New York. Google says its Chrome browser will block ads on websites it deems too annoying for web users starting in 2018. The digital-ad giant’s announcement comes as hundreds of millions of internet users fed up with ads that track them and make browsing sites difficult have already installed ad blockers on their desktop computers and phones. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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Logo for the Washington National Guard, from its official Facebook page (Facebook).

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Illustration on internet innovation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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This image from video provided by KABC-TV shows the wreckage of a deadly small plane that crashed near a beach in Ventura, Calif., northwest of Los Angeles, Thursday, June 1, 2017. (KABC-TV via AP)

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Hearing enhancement devices are displayed at a hunting store Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Scarborough, Maine. The group Guns Owners of America says a push by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Susan Collins to get more hearing aids to people is not about hearing aids at all. They says it's a covert attempt to get more regulation of firearm products such as hearing enhancement devices used by hunters. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)