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Las Vegas officials hope making city ‘smarter’ means getting safer

As the city works towards a courtyard setup where homeless people can access a range of services, officials also are testing cameras that will show whether the new facilities are putting a dent in the high number of Las Vegans who live on the streets.

 
Apple loyalists camp outside in Las Vegas for iPhone X

Apple loyalists say it’s a mix of the tech giant’s products and the brand that make them camp out in front of Apple stores to be the first buyers of new products.

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In Las Vegas, Al Gore says renewable energy economy ‘taking off’

The Strip was hit by “An Inconvenient Truth” Friday, as former Vice President Al Gore opened the National Clean Energy Conference in Las Vegas with an alarming vision of an unfolding global climate crisis.

 
Las Vegas drone conference is the industry’s ‘coming-out party’

Last year’s InterDrone introduced the idea of using drones for commercial applications. This year, InterDrone’s third-ever conference is all about how the public sector and different industries are doing just that.

 
Drone technology on display ahead of Las Vegas conference

For its third annual conference, InterDrone won’t just have drones on the exhibition floor — they’ll be flying around outside, about 30 minutes away.

 
STEM summer camp for girls wraps up in Nevada

Alexa Cafe is iD Tech’s first all girls weeklong summer program in Nevada focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

 
New app may help Nevada drivers down the road

Drivers could help assemble a map of Nevada’s roads and warn fellow motorists about potential collisions, all through a smartphone app.

 
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.

Inside Faraday Future offices, a startup comes to life

Faraday Future spokesmen say the company is working as fast as they can in Gardena, California, to bring the first autonomous electric vehicle to production in North Las Vegas, where it’s a starkly different scene of mostly stagnant dirt.

Driverless electric shuttle being tested in downtown Las Vegas

There’s a new thrill on the streets of downtown Las Vegas, where high- and low-rollers alike are climbing aboard what officials call the first driverless electric shuttle operating on a public U.S. street.

CES tests tech pitches from Las Vegas teens

On Sunday, the last day of CES 2017, five young entrepreneurs in businesslike black blazers and slacks pitched ideas quickly: for a mobile technology safety feature, a nutrition-based concept and an innovative medical device.