September 12, 2021

Las Vegas Review-Journal: New website an invaluable resource for Las Vegas startups

Las Vegas Review-Journal: New website an invaluable resource for Las Vegas startups. “Looking for a deep dive into the Las Vegas startup community and its investors? There’s now a website for that. StartUpNV, a nonprofit business incubator and accelerator for Nevada startups, launched a platform Thursday in partnership with the city of Las Vegas to offer a list of Las Vegas-based startups with data such as funding rounds and valuation.”

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January 24, 2021

New York Times: Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

New York Times: Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen. “Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and, in some cases, die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having on children nearly a year in. The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders, leading some, like the state superintendent in Arizona, to cite that fear in public pleas to help mitigate the virus’s spread. In Clark County, it forced the superintendent’s hand.”

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September 3, 2020

ProPublica: Cellphone Data Shows How Las Vegas Is “Gambling With Lives” Across the Country

ProPublica: Cellphone Data Shows How Las Vegas Is “Gambling With Lives” Across the Country. “Las Vegas casinos reopened June 4, and they have become a likely hotbed for the spread of the novel coronavirus, public health experts said. But if tourists return home and then test positive for COVID-19, the limitations of contact tracing in the midst of a pandemic make it unlikely such an outbreak would be identified.”

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August 16, 2020

Techdirt: Las Vegas Police Are Running Lots Of Low Quality Images Through Their Facial Recognition System

Techdirt: Las Vegas Police Are Running Lots Of Low Quality Images Through Their Facial Recognition System. “Even when facial recognition software works well, it still performs pretty poorly. When algorithms aren’t generating false positives, they’re acting on the biases programmed into them, making it far more likely for minorities to be misidentified by the software. The better the image quality, the better the search results. The use of a low-quality image pulled from a store security camera resulted in the arrest of the wrong person in Detroit, Michigan. The use of another image with the same software — one that didn’t show the distinctive arm tattoos of the non-perp hauled in by Detroit police — resulted in another bogus arrest by the same department.”

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July 18, 2020

Culinary Union: 352 workers & family members hospitalized with COVID-19 so far (3 News Las Vegas)

3 News Las Vegas: Culinary Union: 352 workers & family members hospitalized with COVID-19 so far. “The Culinary Union in Las Vegas continues to push for more safety measures related to COVID-19, arguing that workers and their family members have been getting sick since casinos in the state reopened a month ago. The union said in a statement Friday that 22 of its members and their spouses or dependents have died due to COVID-19, and 352 have been hospitalized through July 15.”

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April 18, 2020

Las Vegas Sun: Las Vegas magicians get creative on social media

Las Vegas Sun: Las Vegas magicians get creative on social media. “The classic ‘Ambitious Card’ trick became extra ambitious, even viral, on March 31. Penn Jillette kicks off a nearly 20-minute video featuring many magicians from around the world — including Vegas performers Mat Franco, Jen Kramer, Matt Donnelly, Xavier Mortimer, Piff the Magic Dragon, Mac King, David Copperfield’s right-hand man Chris Kenner, and of course Teller, plus Penn’s daughter Moxie Jillette — passing along a virtual deck of cards and flashing some sleight-of-hand skills. That video, viewed more than 85,000 times, is just one example of our local illusionist community keeping busy during the Vegas shutdown and sharing the fun online.”

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October 2, 2017

Gizmodo: Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan

Gizmodo: Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan . “On Sunday night, a gunman killed more than 50 people at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. On Monday morning, authorities identified the gunman as Stephen Paddock. But in an episode that has become sadly familiar in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies, amateur sleuths on 4chan incorrectly identified the shooter as another man—and this time Google helped signal boost their misinformation.” Sickening.

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July 1, 2017

U of Nevada, Las Vegas: A new research tool created by University Libraries helps the world discover more connections among the region’s Jewish community.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas: A new research tool created by University Libraries helps the world discover more connections among the region’s Jewish community.. “Navigator is an online research browser that uses linked data embedded in the Libraries’ Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project digital collection to create visualized links between people, organizations, and communities; allowing users to physically see relationships as well as observe how those connections have evolved over time.”

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November 28, 2016

Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) Court Records Going Online

The Clerk of Court for Clark County, Nevada – the county containing Las Vegas – is undertaking a very large digitizing project. “Business proposals from reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, candid photographs of alleged mob bosses, paperwork for plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Those public records and more — the fabric of Clark County’s history — will be at the fingertips of anyone with a computer and internet access as an ongoing initiative by the county clerk’s office comes to fruition.” An initial portal with recent documents will be available within a few months, while the entire project, as you might imagine, will take years.

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