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As Black History Month continues, Ruby Duncan’s legacy is being celebrated for a lifetime of activism that helped shape social programs still valued today and for her role in securing a library for Las Vegas’ Historic Westside.
The investigation found that top streamers paid by the crypto casino won big more often than others. Brett Abarbanel, the executive director of the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, offered feedback on the methodology.
Planetary alignments happen more often than you might think. Here’s why this one is special.
Like it or not, we “vote” with our dollars. Here's how to make sense of a challenging economy and a deeply fraught political environment.
Peter Ferranti, a student at both UNLV and the College of Southern Nevada, will travel to Washington, D.C., on March 4 to join youth advocates from across the country for the Tourette Association of America's "Trip to the Hill." The Tourette Association has no chapters in Nevada, making his participation a first for the state.
Durrett said 30% percent of weed sales in the valley are in the illegal market, meaning the state loses out on $30 million in tax money.
OpenAI, the developer of the chatbot ChatGPT, released a report indicating that the Chinese government used ChatGPT to generate images and text to launch cyberattacks. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out today that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has made related cyberattacks and cognitive warfare larger in scale and lower in cost.
The casino industry, especially in Las Vegas, has become a hotspot for cyber crime. According to a UNLV study last year, there were more than 50 confirmed cyber incidents involving Nevada gaming companies from 2007-2023, with most coming in the last decade.
February, Black History Month, is on its way out, but that doesn’t mean the issues affecting Nevada’s Black community are, too. One such issue is the state’s HIV/AIDS rate, which disproportionately impacts the local Black community. Clark County has a 36% higher rate of HIV than the United States average. And in 2023, HIV/AIDS affected more than 1,200 African Americans in Southern Nevada.
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