Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.
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Carnival, the operator of such cruise lines as Princess, Holland America and Carnival, is unveiling new concierge technology designed to help crew members anticipate and respond to passengers’ needs.
Faraday Future, the electric car startup that’s promised to build a $1 billion plant in North Las Vegas, gave audiences a look at its FF 91 electric car late Tuesday at a CES 2017 event in Las Vegas.
Add Lenovo to the list of companies making virtual reality (VR) headsets. The Chinese consumer electronics giant announced at CES in Las Vegas this week that it is going to launch its own VR device later this year.
By the end of 2017, it’s possible you’ll get around downtown, the Strip and/or the university area via an autonomous self-driving bus-type of vehicle — named Olli.
A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of start-ups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn’t, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to resume flying rockets next week following an investigation into why one of them burst into flames on a launch pad four months ago, the company said Monday.
A once-robust group of bighorn sheep in the River Mountains between Henderson and Boulder City is still suffering the effects of an “insidious” strain of deadly bacteria, though the herd’s numbers improved somewhat over the past year, state wildlife officials said.
A crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station have taken the mannequin challenge to new heights — literally.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey signaled on Twitter Thursday that his company is going to let users edit their tweets in the future. Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking a lot about” bringing editing functionality to tweets, and then went on to say that “a form of edit” was needed.
Twitter is adding live 360-degree video streams to its service, courtesy of Periscope: The company officially rolled out support for live 360-degree video streams Wednesday, allowing users of Twitter’s and Periscope’s apps and website to pan within a live stream simply by moving their phone around.
Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said they can’t go anywhere on the 1.6 million acre Desert National Wildlife Refuge without finding at least one Mylar balloon blown in from nearby Las Vegas.
Volunteers in Henderson participate in Audubon Society’s annual survey, helping chart changes in bird populations, habitat and behavior.
The popular mobile game “Pokemon Go” is now available on the Apple Watch, squashing rumors that the game’s maker was scrapping such plans.
Nevada’s economic development chief assured a panel of state lawmakers Wednesday that Tesla’s mammoth gigafactory is on track in both hiring and capital investment.
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