Washington lawmakers held a hearing on Wednesday in an attempt to shield residents from the relentless barrage of unwanted spam phone calls and text messages. House Bill 1103 could be a game-changer for consumer privacy because of its explicit focus on text messages. While current laws address certain unsolicited texts, the new bill goes a…
A recent study from the Allen Institute in Seattle, led by scientist Hongkui Zeng, offers promising insights into how everyday choices can help preserve brain health as we age. Published in the journal “nature,” Zeng’s research explores the cellular changes in the brain associated with aging and provides practical advice on how to mitigate these effects…
SALT LAKE CITY — Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to exercise more? Maybe you just want to get out of a sedentary lifestyle and start moving more. In that case, try a walking routine. Let’s Get Moving Host Maria Shilaos spoke with Dr. Julia Kammel, a sports medicine physician with Intermountain Health, to…
Oregon State Police say a crash that temporarily shut down U.S. 97 south of Redmond Friday morning was fatal. The crash happened around 5:15 a.m. about five miles south of Redmond near SW 61st Street. It wasn’t fully cleared for several hours. OSP would not give further details on the crash other than to say…
A man in eastern China was arrested for operating more than 400 mobile phones simultaneously to enhance his chances of winning gifts in live-streams. The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered managing the hundreds of devices in a small garage within a residential compound in Jiangsu province in August, as reported by China Newsweek on December…
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah, and much of the rest of the nation, has experienced several notable cell phone service outages that have impacted just about all of us throughout this past year. The frequency and severity of the outages have experts saying we need to have a communication backup plan. A string of outages…
SALT LAKE CITY — According to a new study by Talker Research, one in four people still carry weight gained during the holidays last year. Eating healthy isn’t always easy, but let better health be the greatest gift we give ourselves this holiday season. Let’s Get Moving Host Maria Shilaos spoke with Lea Palmer, assistant…
Starlink is booming and probably coming to a plane, cruise ship, or RV near you. Internet traffic from Elon Musk’s satellite web service more than tripled in 2024, per Cloudflare data. Starlink has expanded to a host of new countries and struck deals with airlines and cruise providers. Elon Musk’s Starlink is taking over planes…
Georgia’s State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) has been busy rolling out changes for Peach Pass users and also preparing to receive applications for local government transportation projects. The Peach Pass Go 2.0 app is getting an update large enough that users will have to download a new app, starting December 17th. “It’s going to…
Hong Kong authorities will consider reducing the amount of compensated sick leave or hospital days that traffic accident victims can claim from a government fund, as part of a review to clamp down on welfare abuse, a minister has said. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Wednesday that authorities aimed to…