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State lawmakers and top university officials attended the opening today of three UNLV offices at data company Switch’s Innevation Center, reports the Las Vegas Sun. The center will house portions of UNLV’s economic development office and its research foundation....
The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently covered SYN Shop's move to Henderson in "Space to create: SYN Shop relocates to Henderson." "People in the Las Vegas Valley maker community are often too busy working on their projects to notice that there are others in the...
After a two-year break, Team Las Vegas is back in the Solar Decathlon, reports UNLV. UNLV is one of just 16 university teams worldwide picked to compete in the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy contest that challenges students to design, build and operate homes that...
Continuing its push into international markets, Las Vegas-based Switch has teamed up with Thailand’s government and the country’s biggest banks to build what the company said will be the largest data center in Thailand, reports DataCenterKnowledge.com. Construction...
UNLV computer science professor Andreas "Andy" Stefik will be honored January 26, 2016 in Washington, D.C. as a "White House Champion of Change." Stefik is one of nine to be recognized this month for their work in computer science education. Stefik creates...
Soon, you won’t actually need to visit The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas in order to tour it, reports Craig Huber for FOX5. Beginning April 1, 2016, “Moe-Bot,” a telepresence robot, will enable guests to tour the museum via computer screen or mobile device....
In May 2015, Airbus Group, the European aerospace and defense giant, announced a $150 million corporate venture capital fund, along with a new business innovation center in Silicon Valley. The business innovation center is now open in downtown San Jose and Airbus...
VegasTechFund-backed Banjo was listed as one of the most innovative tech and science breakthroughs of the year by Kevin J. Ryan, Associate Editor of Inc.com. In the piece, titled "6 Ideas That Blew Our Minds in 2015," Ryan outlines what the Banjo team, who call The...
Switch and all of its SUPERNAP data centers and its more than 1,000 clients who are colocated at their facilities, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy. This makes Switch the world’s largest colocation data center environment to adopt all-inclusive green...