Shawn Chen, Associated Press | Posted Oct. 9 - 10:26 a.m.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly. But it's just one of many potential remedies under consideration.
Mike Stobbe, Associated Press | Posted Oct. 7 - 6:04 p.m.
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A new study suggests that humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy. Advances in medical technology and genetic research are not translating into marked jumps in life span overall.
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Oct. 7 - 2:05 p.m.
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A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. It's the second part of a planetary defense test that could one day help save Earth.
Daniel Niemann, Maria Cheng and Mike Corder, Associated Press | Posted Oct. 7 - 7:22 a.m.
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The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work at the cellular level.
Mike Stapley for KSL.com | Posted Oct. 7 - 6:24 a.m.
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Dr. Richard Rassmussen highly recommends robotics for abdominal surgeries and credits the technology with better patient outcomes and quicker recoveries.
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Oct. 5 - 9:00 p.m.
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Utah transportation officials say they are ready to take the next step to expand charging stations across rural routes in coordination with seven other Intermountain West states.
Ivy Farguheson, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 30 - 9:04 p.m.
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Two Utah doctors will analyze the health history of 10,000 clients — living and deceased — in hopes of learning more about a condition that affects 176 million people around the world.
Darby Sparks, KSL-TV | Posted Sept. 30 - 8:23 a.m.
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Financial experts say Utahns have seen a pocket-pinching 36% increase in rent prices since 2020. Now, it's being discovered that artificial intelligence could play a part.
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 27 - 7:04 p.m.
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A summit in Orem on Thursday discussed how AI be harnessed responsibly, making it accessible to everyone and driving transformative innovation and societal progress.
Katie Hunt, CNN | Updated Sept. 27 - 5:56 p.m.
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Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what's now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — the oldest known cheese.
Patrick Whittle, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 23 - 11:02 a.m.
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The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic says the company's early goals included creating multiple deep-water submersibles.
Evelyne Musambi, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 22 - 7:03 p.m.
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The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat.
Art Raymond, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 20 - 9:43 p.m.
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When NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore blasted off from Earth back in June, there was no reason to believe they'd be out of pocket for the November election.
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Posted Sept. 20 - 8:00 p.m.
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Earth is about to gain a new "mini-moon," but it won't stay around for long. Astronomers say the newly discovered asteroid will temporarily be captured by Earth's gravity and orbit our world for a few weeks.
Patrick Whittle, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 17 - 11:51 a.m.
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A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that he frequently clashed with the company's co-founder and felt the company was committed only to making money.
Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 17 - 8:50 a.m.
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Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.
Patrick Whittle, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 16 - 12:32 p.m.
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A Coast Guard investigatory hearing is looking into the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the Titanic. The Titan imploded in the North Atlantic in June 2023, killing all five people on board.
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 15 - 8:31 p.m.
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The astronauts stuck in the International Space Station say it was hard to see their Boeing capsule leave without them. Their comments Friday come after last week's return of the Boeing Starliner.
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 15 - 4:50 p.m.
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New University of Utah research has found that sediments in the Great Salt Lake's exposed playa are potentially more harmful than other major dust sources.
Sarah Parvini And Matt O'brien, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 15 - 10:07 a.m.
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Venture capitalists are drawing battle lines over which presidential candidate will be better for tech innovation and the conditions startups need to thrive.
Jackie Wattles, CNN | Updated Sept. 15 - 9:27 a.m.
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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew is beginning its fifth day in orbit, having marked a few record-setting milestones on a historic journey — including the world's first commercial spacewalk.
Fabian Cambero and Kylie Madry, Reuters | Posted Sept. 14 - 10:37 a.m.
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Slimy, green seaweed floats in water-filled beakers, buckets and bins in the University of Santiago's labs, algae which scientists in the Chilean capital are trying to turn into an efficient power source.
Associated Press | Updated Sept. 12 - 9:31 p.m.
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Several leading AI companies pledged Thursday to remove nude images from the data sources they use to train their AI products, and committed to safeguards to curb the spread of harmful imagery.
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 12 - 7:21 a.m.
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A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now.
David Shepardson, Reuters | Posted Sept. 11 - 1:44 p.m.
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Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel said Wednesday she wants to see more competition to SpaceX's internet satellite constellation Starlink.
Joey Roulette and Gerry Doyle, Reuters | Updated Sept. 10 - 2:03 p.m.
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Four private astronauts blasted into space early on Tuesday in a modified SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, kicking off the company's five-day Polaris Dawn mission, which aims to test new spacesuit designs and conduct the first private spacewalk.
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 9 - 7:06 p.m.
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Fortem Technologies has been sanctioned by Russia after supplying counter-unmanned aircraft systems to Ukraine. The Utah company says it's proud of its support.
David Shepardson, Reuters | Posted Sept. 9 - 5:32 p.m.
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The U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it is proposing to require detailed reporting requirements for advanced artificial intelligence developers and cloud computing providers to ensure the technologies are safe and can withstand cyberattacks.
Matt O'Brien, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 7 - 8:01 a.m.
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How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn't be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators trying to put guardrails on AI, it's mostly about the arithmetic.
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 6 - 10:29 p.m.
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Boeing's empty Starliner capsule landed in the New Mexico desert late Friday night, with its two test pilots left behind at the International Space Station
Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 6 - 6:56 a.m.
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New research suggests that volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth. Researchers based their conclusion on an analysis of tiny glass beads brought back from the moon by a Chinese spacecraft.
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 4 - 1:08 p.m.
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NASA said Wednesday that Boeing's Starliner capsule is set to undock from the space station Friday evening. The crewless craft will aim for a touchdown six hours later in New Mexico.
Paul Wiseman, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 3 - 11:46 a.m.
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The experience at Alorica — and at other companies, including furniture retailer IKEA — suggests that AI may not prove to be the job killer that many people fear.
Patrick Whittle, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 2 - 11:43 a.m.
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The location of a bronze statue not seen in decades is among the discoveries made by the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic during its first expedition to the site in years.
Mead Gruver, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 31 - 5:13 p.m.
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A "mega den" of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestreamed video, scientists watching the den are learning more about rattlesnakes, including how they care for their young.
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Aug. 30 - 7:02 p.m.
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A University of Utah geoscientist led a study that recovered drilling cores taken from an undersea plateau to see what the microscopic fossilized shells can tell scientists about climate change.
Art Raymond, Deseret News | Posted Aug. 29 - 8:03 p.m.
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The FAA grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets and launched an investigation after a booster rocket tipped over and burst into flames Wednesday during a recovery procedure on an unmanned drone landing pad off the Florida coast.
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Aug. 29 - 5:10 p.m.
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Silicon Slopes is donating all net proceeds from memberships to the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Fund in hopes of helping alleviate Utah's $2.8 million in school lunch debt.
Daniel Woodruff, KSL-TV | Posted Aug. 29 - 12:01 p.m.
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Artificial intelligence has become more prevalent, including in the classroom. Utah Valley University is trying to embrace it, despite its potential pitfalls.
Sean Murphy and Matt O'Brien, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 26 - 2:39 p.m.
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Police officers are starting to use artificial intelligence to help write crime reports. Pulling from the sounds of an officer's body camera, an AI tool based on the same technology as ChatGPT can churn out the first draft of an incident report in seconds.
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Posted Aug. 26 - 12:47 p.m.
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Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, according to new research.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted Aug. 25 - 8:24 p.m.
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Folks who scroll through online videos when they're bored may be making their problem worse. A study found that watching snippets of videos or fast-forwarding through them intensifies boredom.
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Updated Aug. 25 - 7:51 a.m.
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The Perseverance rover has begun a long climb up the steep rim of Jezero Crater on a quest to discover some of the most ancient rocks on Mars — and the potential for environments that may have once hosted life on the red planet.
Joey Roulette, Reuters | Updated Aug. 24 - 4:49 p.m.
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Two NASA astronauts will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year, NASA officials said on Saturday, deeming issues with Starliner's propulsion system too risky.
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Aug. 22 - 2:27 p.m.
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The Point of the Mountain State Land Authority hired a national firm to look into the feasibility of drone and air taxi travel at the state's old prison site in Draper.