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How You Can Put Street Art Legend KAWS & Even That Mysterious Alien Utah Monolith in Your Own Home via AR

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Sure, you could leave a random monolith in Utah and get some notoriety for your street art. Or, you can let others put your art anywhere they'd like with augmented reality so they can appreciate it where they are. That's what artists like Marina Abramovic, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, KAWS, and others are doing with the Acute Art app.

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Unexplained Monolith Discovered in Rural Utah's Red Rock Country

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Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety discovered a shiny metallic monolith in rural Utah’s Red Rock Country on November 18 while surveying big horn sheep by helicopter. The monolith has drawn comparisons to the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey , and the helicopter crew… Read more.

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Coronavirus Has Killed Nearly 10,000 Minks in Utah

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In recent weeks, the state of Utah has been dealing with mass die-offs at mink farms that health officials believe are linked to the viral pandemic—outbreaks that likely began from contact with infected human handlers. Humans aren’t the only creatures at risk from dying of covid-19, it seems. So far, nearly 10,000… Read more.

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Utah's Great Salt Lake Dwindles to New Record Low

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The only thing protecting the state of Utah from toxic, arsenic-filled dust storms is the expanse of saline water known as the Great Salt Lake. But bad news: The lake is rapidly drying up. It’s currently sitting at its lowest recorded water level ever, which was first recorded on Sunday. Read more.

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Utah's Great Salt Lake Dropped to a Record Low

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The Great Salt Lake in Utah, the biggest salt lake in the western hemisphere, is plunging to historic low levels as the region suffers through a vast and relentless megadrought. Read more.

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Utah Officials Drove Over Important Fossil Site With a Backhoe, Paleontologists Say

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Paleontologists and locals familiar with a fossil site in Moab, Utah claim that a backhoe drove over dinosaur footprints and other animal trackways, damaging or destroying them. The Utah Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for protecting Mill Canyon Track Site, has said that its recent dismantling of a… Read more.

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Utah Tech Founder Resigns After Sending Email Claiming 'Jews' Want to 'Euthanize' People With Vaccines

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The founder of Utah-based property management software company Entrata, Dave Bateman, has resigned from the company’s board after sending an anti-Semitic mass email warning that coronavirus vaccines were a plot to “euthanize the American people,” adding “I believe the Jews were behind this.” Read more.

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