“Planet Earth II” is a 7-part series, which begins in the U.S. on Saturday and is a spectacular demonstration of how far nature programs have come. And no one has been more closely linked to their evolution than David Attenborough, the 90-year-old naturalist who narrates “Planet Earth II.”
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. recently announced it is placing an Amazon Echo in every Las Vegas guest room. How many visitors know that their requests could be stored and retrieved, not by the hotel, but by Amazon?
Yahoo is warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company’s investigation of a mega-breach.
Apex Industrial Park is poised to become an “innovation hub” made up of technology and manufacturing companies anchored by Faraday Future and Hyperloop One, according to a report set for release Wednesday.
Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook plans to add a feature on Wednesday to make it easier for people affected by disasters to find each other locally to provide and receive help.
Twitter has broadened its campaign against hate speech and abuse.
Local drone officials say they expect to make major strides with cloud-seeding operations within the next few weeks.
MGM Resorts International recently unveiled what it called Las Vegas’ first “resort-branded emoji sticker pack.”
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.
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.