With online shopping trumping in-store retail this holiday season, cybercriminals will have no shortage of potential victims to target. And they’ve only gotten smarter and more nefarious over the past year.
Science and Technology
The repeatedly delayed flight occurred just two days after SpaceX brought four other astronauts home from the International Space Station.
Autonomous vehicle company Motional will begin offering fully driverless rides in Las Vegas via the Lyft app in 2023, marking the first such public offering in the state.
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future, what Zuckerberg calls the “metaverse.”
The Drone Racing League will bring its high-speed professional drone racing circuit to Las Vegas with the DRL Vegas Championship Race, which will be held on the opening night of CES on Jan. 5.
Clark County Commissioners Wednesday approved plans for the Boring Company’s Vegas Loop system, inching closer to digging beginning.
The “Star Trek” hero and three fellow passengers soared to an estimated 66 miles over the West Texas desert in the fully automated capsule and then safely parachuted to the desert floor.
The tech startup Brinc is focused on creating drones that can fly inside buildings and help first responders. Its first system — the Lemur — started selling earlier this year.
Jeremy Smallwood, who earned his doctorate in astronomy in May, and colleagues believe they have found the space oddity 1,300 light years away in the constellation of Orion.
Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms suffered a worldwide outage Monday that has extended more than three hours. Facebook’s internal systems used by employees also went down. Service has not yet been restored.
A new generation of cellphone towers are being erected and will become active soon with the aim to improve communications in the Summerlin area, according to a community newsletter.
UNLV Incubator is envisioned as a place “where ideas will be incubated into companies of the future,” said hub director and UNLV professor Robert Rippee said Wednesday of the space in the Hughes Center.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
Ioneer Ltd. management hopes to have the facility in sparsely populated Esmeralda County up and running in 2024.