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Teachers to shadow engineers operating robotics system

Two teachers from Southeast Career and Technical Academy began a two-week internship Tuesday shadowing production engineers who operate the Fanuc robotics system at Clearwater Paper in North Las Vegas. It’s the same robotics system that future Faraday Future engineers will operate.

Boomers’ activity, weight, account for more knee replacements

Dr. Todd Swanson, a longtime surgeon in Las Vegas, says increased activity bybaby boomers, coupled with obesity, is fueling the increase in knee replacement surgery. The number of Americans getting the surgery is expected to jump from 600,000 a year to more than 3 milliion by 2030.

Older people becoming more tech savvy

Most of Lisa Gibson’s students are 50 and older with a touch of technophobia they would like to cure. Several of the questions they ask, in fact, deal with social media. Their families are often telling them that unless they get wired in, they are going to be left out, she said.

 
Baby born to mother who had Zika virus dies in Texas

Officials say an infant whose mother traveled to a Zika-infected area in Latin America died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital, marking the first Zika-related death in Texas.