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German robot startup RobCo hits $1 billion valuation, CEO moves to US
Toby Sterling, Reuters | Updated Oct. 5 - 11:25 a.m. | Save Story
German robotics company RobCo reached a valuation of $1 billion on Monday, it said, adding that CEO Roman Hoelzl has relocated to the United States to focus on its fastest-growing market.
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain
Issy Ronald and Katie Hunt, CNN | Posted Oct. 5 - 9:09 a.m. | Save Story
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain.
Honda plans highway test of wireless charging for moving trucks
Reuters | Updated Oct. 5 - 12:37 a.m. | Save Story
Japanese automaker Honda Motor said on Monday it has developed technology that can wirelessly charge electric vehicles, including large trucks, while being driven, and plans to test the technology on a Japanese highway.
Deutsche Telekom sees €2.5 billion in savings from AI, automation by 2030
Reuters | Posted Oct. 5 - 12:10 a.m. | Save Story
Deutsche Telekom said on Monday it expected to save around €2.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in indirect costs by 2030 compared to 2023, as the German telecommunications group expands its use of AI and automation.
India's IT stocks gain as Accenture outlook lifts sector sentiment
Reuters | Updated Oct. 4 - 11:19 p.m. | Save Story
India's Nifty IT Index rose roughly 1.6% on Monday after IT services firm Accenture forecast stronger-than-expected annual revenue growth, lifting sentiment toward the sector and easing concerns that AI-driven disruption could dent technology spending.
Can Colorado make oil companies pay for climate damage? The Supreme Court will soon decide
Leah Bowers, Deseret News | Posted Oct. 4 - 9:50 p.m. | Save Story
The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on whether state courts can push the price of climate change onto energy companies — which will influence environmental lawsuits across the country.
Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | Posted Oct. 4 - 3:30 p.m. | Save Story
There's three times as much carbon still frozen in permafrost as what's now in the air, but all over the Arctic those heat-trapping gases are escaping into the atmosphere.
How Meta is offering 'sight' to Utah's blind veterans
VideoJason Swensen, Deseret News | Posted Oct. 4 - 1:26 p.m. | Save Story
Meta on Tuesday donated dozens of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to Utah veterans who are legally blind at the Utah Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Salt Lake City.
BYU professor says AI can strengthen faith — if used the right way
VideoCaitlyn Johnston | Posted Oct. 4 - 1:03 p.m. | Save Story
In a new age infiltrated by technology, schools and religious institutions can no longer ignore it. So KSL asks a crucial question: Can AI help you build faith, or does it quietly hollow it out?
Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
Chandni Shah, Reuters | Posted Oct. 4 - 12:40 p.m. | Save Story
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."
Inside McDonald's push to have artificial intelligence price your Big Mac
Waylon Cunningham, Reuters | Posted Oct. 4 - 12:18 p.m. | Save Story
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny.
DNA evidence from Thomas Jefferson's hair reveals the truth about his relationship with Sally Hemings
Mindy Weisberger, CNN | Posted Oct. 4 - 10:35 a.m. | Save Story
After spending years reconstructing DNA fragments, scientists have revealed the most compelling evidence to date that Thomas Jefferson also fathered children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman.
Swiss glaciers lose more than 5% of ice after record heatwave
Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse, Reuters | Posted Oct. 3 - 11:31 a.m. | Save Story
Swiss glaciers are shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of ice loss during a record-breaking European heatwave.
Beyond Silicon Slopes: Utah's next tech boom is getting physical
Brooke Nally for KSL | Posted Oct. 3 - 7:47 a.m. | Save Story
Utah's tech economy is expanding beyond software and SaaS into energy, defense, aerospace and manufacturing. Here's why deep tech is gaining momentum.
Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts
Anne D'innocenzio, Associated Press | Updated Oct. 2 - 1:42 p.m. | Save Story
Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers as it reacts to a growing backlash to rollout of the massive buildings.
Swedish ball-bearing ad revives Greta Garbo with US, Chinese AI
Ilze Filks, Francesca Halliwell and Greta Rosen Fondahn, Reuters | Posted Oct. 2 - 10:32 a.m. | Save Story
The AI likeness of Hollywood 1930s movie star Greta Garbo in an unlikely advert for Swedish ball-bearings maker SKF underscores how sophisticated AI is increasingly encroaching on media.
Astronauts arrive at International Space Station on the quickest US express flight yet
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Updated Oct. 1 - 9:51 p.m. | Save Story
Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a U.S. speed record.
Easy-to-guess passwords have cybersecurity experts clamoring for an evolution
VideoMatt Gephardt and Sloan Schrage, KSL | Posted Oct. 1 - 9:01 p.m. | Save Story
Passwords have protected our online lives for decades, but cybersecurity experts say they are on their way out. What's the next step in our technological evolution?
