Facebook said it has uncovered “sophisticated” efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms.
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Skywatchers around much of the world have begun watching a complete lunar eclipse that is the longest of this century.
Cracking down on hate, abuse and online trolls is also hurting Twitter’s standing with investors.
Facebook faced a day of reckoning as its shares plunged Thursday in the company’s worst trading day since going public in 2012. It was among the biggest one-day losses of market value in U.S. stock market history.
A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet, scientists reported Wednesday.
Roughly 75 Moapa Valley residents turned out Tuesday to hear State Engineer Jason King spell out his concerns about the Lower White River Flow System, a collection of five linked aquifers stretching from Apex north into Lincoln County.
Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction.
The Bureau of Land Management is currently accepting public comments on two of the largest solar arrays ever built in Nevada and the first to incorporate batteries that will enable power delivery at night.
Denying the Holocaust happened is probably OK on Facebook. Calling for a mob to kill Jews is not.
The change by Nevada State Engineer Jason King effectively grandfathers in certain property owners who can show they had applied prior his Dec. 19 order banning new domestic groundwater wells in Nye County’s largest town.
The European Union fined Google a record $5 billion Wednesday for forcing cellphone makers that use the company’s hugely popular Android operating system to install Google apps.
Astronomers are still finding moons at Jupiter, 400 years after Galileo used his spyglass to spot the first ones.
A Dutch company that presented the world’s first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said Tuesday it has received funding to pursue its plans to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants from 2021.
Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
At the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, UNLV researchers are slowly adding to their understanding of the mammoth, which died standing up roughly 20,000 years ago near the Nye County community of Amargosa Valley.
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