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New app designed to help homeless students now active in Nevada

May 05, 2022

Most people would be willing to help as long as they knew their help was actually making a difference.

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Ukraine invasion — explained
A customer waits in a queue inside an electronics store in Sydney on Nov. 12, 2020, on the day of the official launch of Sony's next-generation PlayStation 5 gaming console.

Sony halts PlayStation sales in Russia due to Ukraine invasion

Mar 09, 2022
Along with stopping sales of its consoles, the company announced a $2 million donation to UNHCR and the international NGO, Save the Children, to support the victims in Ukraine.
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Simon Says

Opinion: Sea shanties written for the digital age

Jan 22, 2022
Scott Simon imagines a world where beleaguered IT workers gained the recognition they deserve through the use of sea shanties.
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Simon Says
40% of robocalls reportedly are scams.

Opinion: "Hello? Hello?" The Pain Of Pandemic Robocalls

Aug 07, 2021
NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the persistence of robocalls, which have taken on fresh annoyance these days with so many people working from home.
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Las Vegas' Westside Trains Residents For Esports, Tech Jobs

Jul 30, 2021

One of Las Vegas’ oldest neighborhoods is counting on technology to provide tomorrow’s employment opportunities.

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Goats and Soda
Sierra Leone's minister of education and chief innovation officer David Moinina Sengeh is a man of many talents. He's using mobile phone technology to improve daily life, he invented a way to make a prosthetic limb with a computer-assisted technique and

This Education Minister Is A Renaissance Man (And He's Got A Music Video To Prove It)

Jul 10, 2021
Sierra Leone's education minister and MIT graduate David Moinina Sengeh is shooting for the moon when it comes to his country's future, from schools to health-care to ... space travel.
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Technology
This image made from video of a fake video featuring former President Barack Obama shows elements of facial mapping used for deepfakes that lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.

Facebook Researchers Say They Can Detect Deepfakes And Where They Came From

Jun 17, 2021
Deepfakes are altered photos, videos, and still images that use artificial intelligence to appear realistic. They've become harder to detect.
Fifth Street

March 25, 2021

Mar 25, 2021
Area15's Psychedelic Mall for the New Millennium | Follow These 6 Local Instagram Photographers | Parsing the Clark County Lands Bill | My Year of Quarantine Stoner Cuisine
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The Black Cowboy Gets His Due In Art Exhibit

Mar 05, 2021

The imagery of the American west -- you can see it in your head as well as anything in pop culture. 

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Doctors with Databases

Oct 02, 2020

What if accessing medical records was as easy as using an ATM?

Fifth Street

October 1, 2020

Oct 01, 2020
My Showgirls Theory | Health Information Exchange | Rediscovering Black Literature | Barrick's Transformation | Media Sommelier
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Las Vegas Takes Steps Towards A Tech Revolution

Aug 12, 2020

 

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Planet Money

Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race

Feb 25, 2020
Japan rethought the bathroom. Why hasn't America?
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Book Reviews
<em>Facebook: The Inside Story</em>, by Steven Levy

'Facebook: The Inside Story' Reveals A Company Made In Its Founder's Image

Feb 25, 2020
Journalist Steven Levy's rich history of the social network traces Facebook's cascading crises to the worldview and early decisions of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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What’s The Buzz At CES 2020?

Jan 07, 2020

CES does what it always does best, preview future tech products and reveal the trends that will share the year ahead in technology.

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Goats and Soda
Left: Volunteers take part in a "mapathon" organized by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Right: OpenStreetMap contributors pinpoint dump sites along rivers and waterways in Dar es Salaam in an effort to predict and prevent flooding in the Tanzanian c

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue

Oct 03, 2019
Humanitarians are using crowdsourcing software to fill in blank spots on maps of disaster-prone countries.
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National
The Energy Department is reversing energy-efficiency standards for lightbulbs that were set to take effect next year.

Trump Administration Reverses Standards For Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs

Sep 04, 2019
The standards were set to go into effect in January and gradually phase out incandescent and halogen bulbs used for items such as bathroom vanities, recessed lighting and candle-shape lights.
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St. George, Utah, Looking To Make A Tech Park Out Of A Mountain

Jul 09, 2019

n St. George, Utah, civic boosters are looking up.

A 200-foot mesa that borders downtown is turning into a business park called Tech Ridge. 

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Technology
In this Oct. 31 photo, a man has his face painted to represent efforts to defeat facial recognition. It was during a protest at Amazon headquarters over the company's facial recognition system.

San Francisco Considers Ban On Government's Use Of Facial Recognition Technology

May 14, 2019
The city is home to some of the world's largest technology companies, but it may ban the use of facial recognition software by police and city agencies.
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MGM Bets On 'Experience'

Apr 11, 2019

Several MGM Resorts International executives have departed recently, taking buyouts as part of a major cost-cutting initiative.

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Technology
A body camera from Taser is seen during a press conference on Sept. 24, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Police Are Investing In New Technology. 'Thin Blue Lie' Asks, 'Does It Work?'

Apr 07, 2019
Technology has often been proposed as the solution to controversial policing practices. But reporter Matt Stroud says new innovations embraced by law enforcement can present their own problems.
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Book Reviews
<em>Team Huma</em>n by Douglas Rushkoff

'Team Human' Stresses That The Future Lies In Connection And Cooperation

Jan 28, 2019
Douglas Rushkoff's knowledge of digital technology shines in his new book, horrifying us with the capacities of the machines we've built — and the ways they have been used against us.
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Newscast headlines

NHL Tests Puck And Player Tracking In Regular-Season Games

Jan 11, 2019
LAS VEGAS (AP) — On one screen live video was showing how many feet per second Erik Karlsson was skating.
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China Unbound
Chris Nicholson is the CEO of Skymind, a San Francisco-based startup, which makes open-source artificial intelligence tools for businesses and employs about 30 people in the U.S., Canada and Asia. He says the company was fragile at the start — until it

China Makes A Big Play In Silicon Valley

Oct 07, 2018
"The Chinese figured out that technology is the key to wealth and power, and the source of technology is still the West for China," says one China and tech watcher.
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Tech Park: If We Build It, Will They Come?

Jul 31, 2018

Diversification became the buzz word for Nevada after the Recession, because

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