You know "the Force" that binds all things — the one that can let your mind move objects? The latest Future You video demos an armband that allows users to control objects with thoughts.
In a new book, Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code joins a chorus of voices warning of devastating consequences if girls don't partake in tech — and suggesting girls should be encouraged to take risks.
After years of decline in the gambling sector, Reno is trying to reinvent itself. A growing entrepreneurial community is trying to put the city on the tech map
Women in Science still face challenges that male counterparts do not. So says the Director of the Clayman Institute of Gender Research at Stanford University.
Could Cox rig the Internet so you'd see more of what they want you to see?
More of what they profit from? Or would you pay money for that preferential
treatment. The Federal Communications Commission is talking about setting up
rules to prevent that happening on the Internet.
The pilots who fly the unmanned aircraft from Creech Air Force Base north of
Las Vegas go to work like many white-collar workers. It's a 40-minute
commute and then they're back in the suburbs.
Stanford Astrophysicist Roger Blandford says energy not only escapes from
black holes, it spurts out. He'll join us to explain his ecological theory
of black holes and preview his lecture at UNLV.
The White House recently launched an initiative to protect the nation's
cyber-security. But what's the threat and how can it be met? Info-terrorism
expert Terry Hawkins tells us what he thinks needs to be done.
Most participants in the health care debate support electronic medical
records. They'll save money that can be spent on other things and the
computerized records will reduce medical errors.
Creech Air Force Base, north of Las Vegas, is the center of operations for the nation's unmanned predator drone fleet that flies above Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Author P.
Mary Ellen Glantz, patient who underwent Robotic surgery
Dr Lynn Kowalski, MD, FACOG, FACS, Gynecology Oncology, NV Surgery and Cancer Care
Dr Waldo Feng, MD, Pediatric Urology
Dr Myriam Curet, MD, Prof of Surgery, Stanford, bariatric surgeon, Sheraton Phoenix
Dr Angelique M Reitsma, MD, Bio-ethicist, U of PA
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Liz Wolgemuth, Assoc Ed, US News and World Report
... on her recent article in the magazine suggesting that the promise of a green
jobs bonanza might be overstated.
Ted Robert Gurr, Distinguished University Prof Emeritus, U of Maryland, College Park
Dennis Pirages, Dean's Professor of Govt, UNLV
Tyrus Cobb, CEO, Northern Nevada Network
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Susan Fleming, Dir for Physical Infrastructure Projects, GAO
... on two high speed rail projects that are hoping to link Las Vegas with Southern California and whether they will be successful.
