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Utah businesses adapt to AI as lawmakers work on new rules
VideoMadi Vollmer, KSL | Posted Aug. 25 - 1:14 p.m. | Save Story
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how businesses market, sell and connect with customers, and Utah lawmakers are working to keep up with the technology.

Washington Terrace presses 'pause' on Flock cameras
Britt Johnson, KSL | Posted Aug. 25 - 6:31 a.m. | Save Story
Washington Terrace City has paused its trial of license plate readers, known as Flock cameras, amid controversy.

From supercomputers to startups: Inside Utah's growing bet on AI
Brooke Nally for KSL | Posted Aug. 24 - 6:20 a.m. | Save Story
A $50-million supercomputer, hundreds of millions in startup funding and a growing policy framework makes Utah's AI bet harder to ignore.

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint, high jump at Beijing robot games
Achmad Ibrahim And Chan Ho-him, Associated Press | Updated Aug. 22 - 9:07 p.m. | Save Story
Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.

As workplace surveillance grows, experts say it's good to know the ways employers are watching
Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 22 - 7:24 p.m. | Save Story
Employers have always monitored workers, but recent advances in artificial intelligence and data science have advanced these abilities. Here's how to outsmart the science — sort of.

Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 22 - 4:56 p.m. | Save Story
Now it's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act.

Tropical Storm Moke forms in the Pacific, set to impact storm-weary Hawaii
Tyler Ory, Mary Gilbert and Kate S. Petersen, CNN | Posted Aug. 22 - 10:31 a.m. | Save Story
Hawaii is eyeing a new tropical threat less than a week after the deadly Hurricane Lala tore through parts of the islands.

Southern Utah University selected to establish statewide NASA workforce hub
Logan Stefanich, KSL | Posted Aug. 20 - 4:35 p.m. | Save Story
Southern Utah University was one of seven organizations across the U.S. selected by NASA to launch statewide workforce hubs.

Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 US cities
Josh Funk, Associated Press | Updated Aug. 19 - 9:45 p.m. | Save Story
Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Wednesday.

Florida's Jellyfish Museum is dedicated solely to the mesmerizing floating predators
David Fischer, Associated Press | Updated Aug. 19 - 6:32 p.m. | Save Story
The private Jellyfish Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida, is believed to be the first museum in the United States dedicated solely to jellyfish that opened this past spring.
Rescue mission for aging NASA space telescope fails
Joey Roulette, Reuters | Posted Aug. 19 - 5:34 p.m. | Save Story
A mission to rescue NASA's aging Swift observatory in space was canceled on Wednesday after the spacecraft that was launched to tug the satellite to a higher orbit suffered irredeemable technical issues in space.

Residents voice concerns over self-powered data center proposal in Spanish Fork
VideoCassidy Wixom and Shelby Lofton, KSL | Updated Aug. 19 - 1:52 p.m. | Save Story
Dozens of people voiced their concerns and questions about a proposed data center at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon in a meeting that stretched past midnight Tuesday.

Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 18 - 5:20 p.m. | Save Story
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

How a BYU study led Utah lawmakers to pass a student data privacy law
Logan Stefanich, KSL | Posted Aug. 18 - 2:01 p.m. | Save Story
Research from Brigham Young University found that education technology vendors don't always meet their student privacy obligations, a realization that has prompted legislation to address some of these privacy issues.

Utah State Ag-DRIP program helps farmers conserve water in Colorado River Basin
VideoAlex Cabrero, KSL | Updated Aug. 18 - 8:06 a.m. | Save Story
Ag-DRIP, a Utah State research program, aims to help farmers conserve water in the Colorado River Basin.
Meta faces 29-state trial that could reshape Instagram and Facebook
Diana Novak Jones, Reuters | Updated Aug. 18 - 7:06 a.m. | Save Story
A coalition of states suing Meta Platforms over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed to harm young users' mental health will begin making its case on Tuesday in California.

Bionic hands aren't just for Luke Skywalker
VideoPeter Rosen, KSL | Posted Aug. 17 - 9:03 p.m. | Save Story
Utah researchers wire a bionic hand directly into a Florida man's nervous system.

NASA's 'Dragon Lady' is uncovering how wildfires create storms
Emma Balleste, CNN | Posted Aug. 15 - 8:22 p.m. | Save Story
NASA is using a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study one of Earth's least understood weather phenomena: wildfire-generated storms.


