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Las Vegas Drone Club conducts races, plans to expand role

About 30 members and non-members of the Las Vegas Drone club showed up to the group’s annual King of Las Vegas FPV, or first-person view, tournament at Red Ridge Park in southwest Las Vegas on Saturday.

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Emergency space walk planned on International Space Station

A pair of astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station as early as Tuesday for an emergency space walk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major U.S. systems aboard the orbiting outpost, NASA said Sunday.

New gentlemen’s club hopes virtual currency will set it apart

A Las Vegas man who plans to open a new gentlemen’s club next month is hoping a new marketing weapon — a virtual currency — will help him wrestle tech- and investment-savvy clients away from the strip club giants.

‘Hot spot’ in nuclear waste shipment underscores Yucca Mountain concern

Higher-than-expected radiation levels detected in liquid waste shipped from Canada to South Carolina illustrate the folly of shipping even-more-dangerous materials to Nevada by truck and rail, state’s top nuclear safety official says.

 
UNLV researcher studies desert’s ‘living carpet’

Restoration ecologist Lindsay Chiquoine studies biological soil crusts, a once-overlooked world of highly specialized mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria at a research site near Lake Mead.

 
Vigilant British researcher helps thwart global cyberattack

The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was stemmed by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration, with help from another 20-something security engineer in the U.S.

 
Ransomware attack believed to be biggest of its kind

Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies.

 
Atomic town revels in past despite tunnel collapse sparking fears

Hours after the collapse of a 20-foot portion of a Hanford tunnel full of highly contaminated equipment, Adrian Martens was sitting at the bar having a pint after his Tuesday shift. He said people here aren’t afraid of Hanford — or adopting the atomic iconography as kitsch. “It’s a fun retro thing,” he said. He thinks the news panicking about the tunnel collapse “might be overblown.”

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