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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Colorado, Utah and Nevada are teaming up to build an electric vehicle charging network to make it easier for them to travel long distances.
California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix. The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii , or “Hendrix’s liveforever.”
Even after 81 years, stubborn myths still cling to the colossal construction effort that built Hoover Dam. But the most incredible story about the project is absolutely true.
Vine, the service, may be shuttered soon, but Vine, the app, will survive: Twitter is going to update the existing Vine app with a new Vine Camera app come January.
The dwarf planet Ceres, an enigmatic rocky body inhabiting the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is rich with ice just beneath its dark surface, scientists said on Thursday in research that may shed light on the early history of the solar system.
A multi-state agreement aimed at slowing the decline of Lake Mead can’t be finished until California finds a way to solve two major, long-simmering environmental fights, top water managers said Thursday.
Wynn Las Vegas is setting a new standard on the Strip: all 4,748 guest rooms will be equipped with artificial intelligence by next summer, the company announced Wednesday.
Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network, partnering with outside fact-checkers to sort honest news reports from made-up stories.
Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that it has identified a new system breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than 1 billion user accounts.
Retail giant Amazon.com has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer, dropping off a Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn to a house in the rural English countryside 13 minutes after receiving an online order.
Twitter users can now start streaming live video right from within the service’s mobile apps, courtesy of Periscope.
All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a rule the Transportation Department proposed Tuesday.
Three months after first announcing a recall of its Note 7 phone, Samsung is getting ready to force any remaining users of the device to stop using it.
Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered dinosaurs that prospered during the Cretaceous Period.
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