The future of wireless and mobile technology may be found by using Salt Lake City and the University of Utah as a huge test site, with the creation of a new "living laboratory."
SALT LAKE CITY — A significant power outage left tens of thousands of people without electric service along the Wasatch Front before noon on Monday. Rocky Mountain Power’s website showed the number of customers impacted by 1 p.m. to be in excess of 57,000. By 1:30 p.m., the number had dropped below 30,000. The utility […]
20 advocacy groups filed a complaint asking the FTC to investigate YouTube for violating the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. It limits how a company can collect data about kids under 13.
Salt Lake County and conservation experts believe a new trash boom can go a long way toward cleaning up the trash floating in the Jordan River. They hope removing the junk and preventing it from reaching the Great Salt Lake will improve conditions for waterfowl.
SALT LAKE CITY — It started out as a project to measure how quickly Utah’s arches are crumbling, but along the way Utah scientists caught the rocks…singing. Jeff Moore, Assistant Professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, said they measured the vibrations of famous arches to try and determine what how […]
SANDY — It turns out you can save water if you are reminded to do it. A group of Sandy middle schoolers created an app to track water usage, and they say it leads to big savings. They are on a First Lego League Robotics Team called “Bionic Porcupines iii,” and they worked with Sandy […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Ride-sharing service Uber has decided to pull tests of self-driving cars after a pedestrian was struck and killed. Police believe the accident, in Tempe, Arizona, marks the first time a pedestrian has died in an accident involving an autonomous vehicle. A police statement says the vehicle had a human “operator” to assist […]
Local educators say you need to talk to your teen about sexting, because chances are, they are already doing it. A new study from the journal JAMA Pediatrics says at least one in four teens are receiving sexually explicit messages, and at least one in seven are sending those pics or videos. “Teenagers are impulsive, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (Feb. 22, 2018)— In partnership with Adobe, Dell EMC, Girls Who Code and Microsoft, the Utah STEM Action Center announced the launch of the Utah Girls Who Code Club Network, at an event Thursday at Dell EMC. Starting in the fall 2018 school year, nearly 50 clubs will be hosted at […]
Inside Sources is live at the Silicon Slopes Summit. Tune in at 1:05 p.m. Mitt Romney talked about everything from failure, to America’s future in a speech to a technology crowd in Salt Lake City on Friday. But no announcement yet on a Senate run. The former Massachusetts governor also lauded the GOP tax plan, […]
A state lawmaker thinks her bill to restrict talking on the phone while driving should be received well this upcoming legislative session. Representative Carol Spackman Moss says it’s one of the biggest complaints she gets — people running others off the road or nearly causing a crash because they are holding a phone to their […]
Authorities say it’s good to hear that the Food and Drug Administration will start looking more closely at homeopathic products. Babies were having seizures from certain homeopathic teething tablets. Other people were finding that their product or treatment was really just an expensive vial of water. There’s also the worry about contamination “Right now, FDA […]
This is suicide prevention week, and here at KSL we are bringing you stories of hope, resilience, resources and recovery. On average, two Utahns die by suicide every day. 12 more are treated for attempts. No one knows exactly why the numbers are so high in our state, but these two Utahns in this […]
UTAH — A paleontology team has turned to crowdfunding to continue their research after cuts stalled their project for several years. Dr. Jim Kirkland, State Paleontologist of Utah, said the bones were actually found back in 2004 but it took years for scientists to realize just how monumental they were. Dr. Jim Kirkland, who named […]
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — A group of four Utah tweens is getting nationally recognized for inventing a device to keep away birds from planes. Bird strikes have been happening for years – there were more than 200 in 2015 at Salt Lake International — but after learning about “The Miracle on the Hudson,” the […]
MIDVALE – Hail fell as men carried computers and flash drives from a small Midvale apartment to a mobile command vehicle parked outside. As I watched, Jessica Farnsworth, the commander of Utah’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force turned to me and said, “This gentleman’s house is right next to a child’s playground.” The […]
