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Find out how criminals are using AI to flood businesses with fake job seekers
Sloan Schrage, KSL | Posted Sept. 8 - 12:05 p.m. | Save Story
Scammers are now getting jobs at companies in order to get in the front door of companies, opening them up for potential fraud. Experts explain how.
Water harvesting devices pull drinking water from the air in deserts, but face criticism
Laura Paddison, CNN | Posted Sept. 7 - 11:01 a.m. | Save Story
The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet MIT engineers decided to test new technology to pull drinking water from an unconventional source: the air.
Scientists have created rechargeable, multicolored, glow-in-the-dark succulent plants
Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN | Posted Sept. 7 - 9:35 a.m. | Save Story
Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction or fantasy. But scientists have already made plants that emit a greenish glow.
Google hit with $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine over adtech practices
Foo Yun Chee, Reuters | Posted Sept. 6 - 11:26 a.m. | Save Story
Google was hit with a $3.45 billion European Union antitrust fine Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, a sharp sanction that riled up President Trump.
Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 6 - 8:21 a.m. | Save Story
Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
Kennedy to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, report says
Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | Posted Sept. 5 - 8:18 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that the use of Tylenol in pregnant women is potentially linked to autism, contrary to medical guidelines that say it is safe to use, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
'Stepping into the future': Jordan School District opens first-of-its-kind innovation lab
Logan Stefanich, KSL | Posted Sept. 5 - 7:12 p.m. | Save Story
The Jordan School District is continuing to leverage technology as a crucial part of the educational experience, officially opening the Jordan Innovation Lab on Friday.
Tesla offers mammoth $1 trillion pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets
Akash Sriram, Reuters | Posted Sept. 5 - 4:36 p.m. | Save Story
Tesla's board has proposed a $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk in what would be the largest corporate pay package in history, underscoring the hold Musk has over the carmaker as it attempts to transform into an AI and robotics powerhouse.
Have You Seen This? Beneath the launch pad as Starship rocket takes off
Linda Williams, KSL | Posted Sept. 3 - 3:32 p.m. | Save Story
Video shows the blastoff of SpaceX's Starship from a distance, but another video provides a fiery glimpse from under the rocket thrusters.
These are the conditions that make you eligible for an updated COVID-19 vaccine
Jacqueline Howard, CNN | Posted Sept. 2 - 6:50 a.m. | Save Story
This year's updated COVID-19 vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for adults 65 and older and younger people with certain medical conditions that put them at a higher risk of a severe COVID-19 infection.
Southern Utah emerging as tech destination with Wilson Connectivity expansion, CEO says
Stephanie DeGraw, St. George News | Posted Sept. 1 - 8:21 a.m. | Save Story
In a move that signaled growth and commitment to American manufacturing, Wilson Connectivity opened a new high-tech facility Wednesday to bring its operations under one roof.
Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves
Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 31 - 2:05 p.m. | Save Story
A team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border are using drones to blast AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," movie clips and live human voices at wolves to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.
An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Then what happened?
Mindy Weisberger, CNN | Posted Aug. 31 - 9:32 a.m. | Save Story
A human skeleton excavated in Vietnam in 2017 that belonged to a man killed by a projectile 12,000 years ago is believed to be the first known evidence of conflict from that era, scientists say.
Study: Common heart attack drug doesn't work, may raise risk of death for some women
Sandee LaMotte, CNN | Posted Aug. 31 - 8:03 a.m. | Save Story
A class of drugs called beta-blockers doesn't benefit the vast majority of patients and may contribute to a higher risk of hospitalization and death in some women, research found.
Brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help solve an enduring cosmic mystery
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Updated Aug. 30 - 8:32 p.m. | Save Story
Astronomers spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet, and observations of it, a flash of radio waves lasting about a millisecond, could shed light on one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena.
World's first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo
Leila Miller, Reuters | Updated Aug. 30 - 5:47 p.m. | Save Story
They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province.
Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Jeff Horwitz, Reuters | Posted Aug. 30 - 10:54 a.m. | Save Story
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
Idaho National Lab breaks ground on nation's first experimental modular reactor
Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Aug. 29 - 8:33 p.m. | Save Story
Idaho National Lab officials met with Texas-based Aalo Atomics on Thursday for the groundbreaking of Aalo-X, the nation's first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor.
Melania Trump issues 'AI challenge' to America's K-12 kids
Jason Swensen, Deseret News | Posted Aug. 29 - 8:10 a.m. | Save Story
First lady Melania Trump is challenging American kids to "discover, develop and expand AI's potential" by competing in a nationwide artificial intelligence contest.
