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Las Vegas’ Sphere: Powered By Nvidia GPUs And With Impressive Power Bill
As the United States’ pinnacle of extravaganza, the Las Vegas Strip and the rest of the town of Paradise are on a seemingly never-ending quest to become brighter, glossier and more over the top as one venue tries to overshadow the competition. A good example of this is the ironically very uninspiredly named Sphere, which has both an incredibly dull name and yet forms a completely outrageous entertainment venue with a 54,000 m2 (~3.67 acre) wrap-around interior LED display (16 x 16K displays) and an exterior LED display (‘Exosphere’) consisting out of 1.23 million LED ‘pucks’. Although opened in September of 2023, details about the hardware that drives those displays have now been published by NVidia in a recent blog post.
U.S. News & World Report 2024 Graduate Program Rankings, UNLV & UNR
Author: Madison Dwyer, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown, Jr. Abstract: This fact sheet presents 2024 graduate program rankings for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and for the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) based on the data published in spring 2024 by U.S. News and World Report. The graduate program categories reported include business, education, engineering, fine arts, law, medicine and health care, sciences and mathematics, and social sciences and humanities.
Feds bust burglary ring targeting SoCal gun stores
SAN DIEGO — Five Riverside County men and a Las Vegas resident are facing a federal charge of taking part in a series of burglaries and attempted burglaries at firearms stores across Southern California, pilfering more than 300 weapons, including more than 100 from San Diego County gun shops, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Top NBA draft pick has worst summer league game ever
The rims at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. were not kind to Washington Wizards rookie Alex Sarr during his team’s 82-80 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday. Sarr, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, had arguably the worst NBA Summer League game ever. The Frenchman... The post Top NBA draft pick has worst summer league game ever appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
Angel Reese's Pregame Outfit Before Sky-Aces Turns Heads
The Chicago Sky are currently in Las Vegas, set to face off against the defending champion Aces. Before heading onto the court, rookie Angel Reese strutted through the stadium tunnel, showing off her pregame outfit. She was wearing an all-blue outfit, with a large purse by her side and white shoes ...
During The MLB All-Star Break, Bryce Harper And Ballplayers From Around The League Took The Time To Rip The Worst Owner In Sports, Oakland's John Fisher, And His Plan To Move The A's To Las Vegas, Predicting It's "Going To Be A Disaster"
LA Times - The Oakland Athletics are 11 weeks from extinction. They’ll set up shop in Sacramento for three or four years, and after that they plan on making Las Vegas their new home. The A’s fans hate the idea, of course. The elected officials in Nevada, who authorized $380 million in public funding toward a new ballpark in Las Vegas, largely love the idea.
Lawsuit Against Formula 1, Clark County Imminent As Las Vegas Businesses Will Allege They Lost Millions Of Dollars In Revenue Because Of Las Vegas Grand Prix
Shop at Jay’s Market at 190 East Flamingo Road at the Koval Lane intersection east of the Strip. LVSportsBiz.com has learned it’s imminent that a second lawsuit alleging the Formula 1 race in Las Vegas caused local businesses to lose money will be filed soon. After Ellis Island...
How nation’s worst mass casualty shooting prepared Alan Keesee for job as CEO of HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
OCALA, FL (352today.com) – One of the nation’s worst mass casualty incidents played a role in shaping Alan Keesee. The hospital administrator was serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, when an event unfolded on Oct. 1, 2017, that no one expected. A gunman sprayed over 1,000 bullets in 11 minutes into a crowd of more than 20,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
NV Energy’s A/C rebates halted, restarted after month-long pause
When Reno resident Ky Plaskon’s air conditioning unit stopped working as a record-setting heat wave gripped both ends of Nevada this week, he inquired about a subsidized replacement through NV Energy’s PowerShift program. Funded by ratepayers, the program offers customers a rebate of $340 to $2,000 on energy-efficient units, depending on the type and size.
High temps return to Bay Area, Central Coast on Thursday
The weather system that scorched the Bay Area and Central Coast in early July is hanging a U-turn and is headed back to the region with more heat, according to the National Weather Service. Around July 4, a ridge of high pressure in the atmosphere was sitting right off the coast and pushed temperatures into the triple digits in some inland areas for the better part of two weeks. That same system is now boomeranging up from the southwestern desert region and will drag high temperatures back into the region starting Wednesday and lasting until the middle of next week, said weather...
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