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Share the love this Valentine’s Day with a free billboard message

If your valentine deserves more than a typical greeting card, why not go with the high-tech alternative? Adomni, a Las Vegas technology start-up is offering 10 minutes of free ad space on three digital billboards to help locals share their love this Valentine’s Day.

Science shows off its artistic side in new UNLV exhibit

Minerals glow like stained glass in a magnified cross-section of a Martian meteorite. A hypnotic swirl of spikes grows at the center of an aloe plant in a natural expression of mathematics’ golden ratio.

Warm Pacific water blamed for deaths of tens of thousands of birds

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat.

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Starring Friday night: a full moon, a lunar eclipse, a comet

Hope for clear skies. A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend. A lunar eclipse starts everything off Friday night.

MGM launches new Las Vegas emojis

MGM Resorts International recently unveiled what it called Las Vegas’ first “resort-branded emoji sticker pack.”

‘Father of Pac-Man’ dies at 91

Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91.

Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car

Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his cartoon flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing.

Las Vegas ranked among 10 most malware-infested cities in US

Webroot, a Denver-based anti-virus software maker and threat intelligence services provider, this week listed Las Vegas eighth among the 10 most malware-infested cities in America.

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