Technology

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Pretty soon, the best place to be on the lookout for a wolf, grizzly bear or other wildlife in Yellowstone National Park could be your phone. Just don’t be surprised if lots of other people get the same idea. New smartphone apps enable people to pinpoint where they’ve recently seen critters in Yellowstone...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — It now appears that North Korea hasn’t mastered the technology it would need to control multi-stage rockets. That’s the assessment of former State Department intelligence officer Greg Thielmann, after North Korea’s failed launch today...

News broke on Monday that Facebook had acquired the popular photo-sharing service Instagram for the princely sum of $1 billion in cash and stock. It’s the biggest purchase in the history of the world’s largest social network, and it made new multimillionaires of Instagram’s chief executive and the company’s handful of employees.

Finding out you’re being audited by the IRS can be pretty scary, especially when you have to meet with an auditor in person. But what if you could deal with the whole mess via video-conferencing from the comfort of your own home?

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Legislature has provided an additional $2.4 million to complete a cloud seeding research project and ensure that it will have scientifically sound results. The state has invested about $11 million since 2005 in the project, which seeks to determine whether cloud seeding increases the amount of snowpack in several of the state’s mountain ranges...

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government has identified a large block of airwaves that can be freed to meet growing demand for movies, games and other data-intensive activities on smartphones and other mobile devices. Wireless and technology companies have been clamoring for more spectrum...

By now you’ve probably seen lots of people toting around e-readers like the Amazon Kindle. They let you carry thousands of books in a slim, lightweight device — but do the people who use them actually read more?

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — University of Wyoming students, faculty and staff have a new way to stay up to date on campus news, events and other information. The university has published a new mobile app. UW IT information services project manager Jennifer Chavez says the WyoMobile App gives users of mobile devices a way to easily access many of the university’s resources...