“Vegas could become the esports capital of North America,” said Milo Ocampo, the founder of Las Vegas-based 8-Bit Esports.
Science and Technology
Two UNLV scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
New machine allows users to beam interactive images of themselves to others.
Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google pulled the plug last month on the platform, which caters to a conservative and sometimes far-right user base.
A new craps game at Harrah’s Las Vegas, Roll to Win Craps from Aruze Gaming America Inc., combines the traditional dice game with a large LED screen and electronic bets.
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
The space station is now equipped with 24 lithium-ion batteries to store power collected by the solar panels.
Sascha Deri, chief executive officer of bluShift, said the company is banking on becoming a quicker, more efficient way of transporting satellites to space.
GameStop stock has rocketed from below $20 earlier this month to more than $400 early Thursday as a volunteer army of investors on social media challenged big institutions who had placed market bets that the stock would fall.
Each of these first paying customers intends to perform science research in orbit, he said, along with educational outreach.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed, the company said.
The company met an uncertain future this month after tech giants pulled the plug on the platform.
Work in Progress, a downtown Las Vegas coworking space and startup hub championed by the late Tony Hsieh, will close its doors Friday.
A CES panel on Wednesday explored space research and technology for the next generation of space exploration.