The Supreme Court's lifting of a federal ban on sports betting in 2018 launched an unprecedented rise of the gambling industry in the United States. In 2017, Americans legally wagered approximately $4.9 billion on sports. Last year, with sports betting legalized in 39 states and accessible ...

I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations. In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could ...

The other night, I got up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom and heard the dishwasher making a terrible grinding noise. I couldn’t stop the cycle by pushing buttons, but it stopped when I opened the door. All good. We (meaning Dave) could deal with the problem in the morning. I plodded back BEEP ...

The Spanish Fork City Council approved a city code amendment Tuesday to clear the way for the city's first data center to be built. The new code, nearly 5,000 words long and revised over the course of multiple council meetings, was approved in a 3-2 vote. It will allow for one data center in ...

A month after updating its lighting code to make the city more dark sky compliant, the Provo City Council revisited the code Tuesday to make an amendment regarding holiday lighting.  The Aug. 25 code update restricted new and replaced outdoor fixtures to 3,000 Kelvin or less and required them ...

In my circles and in the landscape of education, I hear all too frequently a phrasing about the “industry of education,” or “in our industry,” leading into more talk about the nature of teaching and learning from early childhood through the university systems. To be fair, I know that ...