With the completion of a $600 million convention center renovation next month, Las Vegas should close in on a record year for conventions and trade shows.
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When it opens in January for CES, the Las Vegas Convention Center will be the second largest in the country behind Chicago’s McCormick Center by indoor exhibit space.
Las Vegas’ tourism arm approved spending over $7 million to go toward hosting WrestleMania next year and buying tickets to this year’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
If you’re riding in the Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop and notice your driver isn’t steering the vehicle, that’s because, in some cases, they aren’t.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is set to spend over $7 million related to hosting the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix and WWE’s WrestleMania.
Impossible Foods — the company famous for making a burger substitute so much like the real thing it even “bleeds” — unveiled Impossible Burger 2.0 on Monday evening at a media event at Border Grill at Mandalay Bay.
Fifty-three million American adults own a smart speaker, and the list is growing; the number of smart speakers in U.S. households jumped 78 percent in one year to 118.5 million in December 2018, according to Edison Research.
A loaf of bread every six minutes? Among the hottest must-see demonstrations as CES 2019 opens on Tuesday is the BreadBot, which has taken years to develop. Foldimate and Hupnos are not household names yet, but wait til you see what they can do.
The future of the automobile may not only be autonomous, it may also fly, have touch screens for windows and calm you when you are angry, according to industry speakers at CES.
There’s no place quite like Las Vegas. And that uniqueness definitely extends to some of its restaurants.
The advancement of artificial intelligence could have a growing impact on Las Vegas’ tourism industry.
A CES 2019 panel in Las Vegas discussed the growth and growing pains of immersive entertainment such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
A large billboard above Google’s outdoor pavilion reads, “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone,” referencing controversies tied to data protection at Google, Facebook and other industry peers.
Cory Weirmier of Danby Appliances explains the the Parcel Guard, a smartbox designed to thwart “porch pirates.”
Holographic 3D displays and smart mirrors — two products suited for use on the Strip — were among the products revealed Sunday night ahead of the official opening of CES.