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    Video: Future You, With Elise Hu
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    VIDEO: Move Objects With Your Mind? We're Getting There, With The Help Of An Armband

    Jul 16, 2019
    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.
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    Reshma Saujani, founder and chief executive officer of Girls Who Code Inc., speaks during the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 21, 2017. IBM
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    'Brave, Not Perfect' Speaks To The Scarcity Of Women In Tech

    Feb 07, 2019
    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.
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    China Unbound
    CEO Jürgen Pieper (right) of Romaco receives a briefing from an employee at the company's branch in Cologne, Germany. The pharmaceutical technology company is one of a growing number of German firms being bought by Chinese investors.
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    Chinese Companies Get Tech-Savvy Gobbling Up Germany's Factories

    Oct 03, 2018
    Beijing wants to up its manufacturing game to make high-end technology — so it has gone on a buying spree, acquiring key German tech firms.
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    Tony Hsieh-Funded Startup Rumgr Purchased By EBay

    Oct 07, 2014
    One of the first tech startups funded by Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project has been sold to eBay. Rumgr is an app that allows individuals to sell used...
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    Capitalizing on CES: Local Companies In The World's Largest Tech Bazaar

    Jan 07, 2014

    As the tech scene in Vegas grows, techies are looking for ways to merge the local startup and technology industry with the Consumer Electronics Show.

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    Reno As The Biggest Little Silicon Valley

    Oct 23, 2013

    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

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    Women in Science

    Jan 29, 2010
    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.
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    CES

    Jan 12, 2010
    So the next big thing is three-dimensional television. Hmmm.
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    Googled

    Dec 11, 2009
    New Yorker writer Ken Auletta has long been a critic of big media companies. Now he's trained his sites on Google.
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    Net Neutrality

    Nov 20, 2009
    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.
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    Predators

    Nov 05, 2009
    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.
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    Quasars and Cosmology

    Oct 22, 2009
    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.
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    Cyberia

    Oct 19, 2009
    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.
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    Flute in Reach

    Oct 15, 2009
    A Las Vegas company has joined the rush to develop new software for the iPhone. It's a series of how-to-play lessons for musical instruments.
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    Electronic Medical Records

    Oct 08, 2009
    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.
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    Wired for War

    Jun 29, 2009
    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.
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    Robotic Surgery

    Apr 23, 2009
    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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    Green Jobs

    Apr 16, 2009
    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.
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    Renewable Energy

    Apr 14, 2009
    Eric Roberts, Assoc AIA, LEED AIP and VP, SH Architects Sean Coulter, Pres Elect, American Inst of Architects ..
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    Energy Security

    Apr 14, 2009
    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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    Human Genome Project

    Apr 09, 2009
    Francis Sellers Collins, MD, PhD, Special Volunteer, Natl Inst of Health and Natl Human Genome Research Inst ..
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    Defense Budget

    Apr 07, 2009
    Michael Cohen,Sr Fellow, New America Foundation ..
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    High Speed Rail

    Apr 06, 2009
    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.
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    Bernard Finel

    Mar 12, 2009
    Bernard Finel, Sr Fellow, American Security Project ... on national counter-terrorism efforts and in Las Vegas.
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    Tom Ridge

    Mar 11, 2009
    Tom Ridge, Former Sec of Homeland Security ..
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