A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from the student’s family.
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Twitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David.
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
Saliva and oral bacteria samples from 30 UNLV dental clinic patients will take off Thursday in a rocket bound for the International Space Station.
The astronauts, three American and one Japanese, flew back in the same capsule — named Resilience — in which they launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in November.
The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year.
Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and others from its main service and from Instagram, saying they violated the company’s ban against hate and violence.
An experimental sailplane built by the Minden-based Perlan Project team soared to a new unofficial world altitude record for engineless flight on Sunday, then broke that record by climbing to an altitude of 63,776 feet two days later.
There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer.
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