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A 28-year-old Brit is the first person to swim across the water at the iconic Hoover Dam. Hundreds of other people did not survive a dip in the water.

A group of angry viewers complain to the American showtime showtime for the beloved stream of the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor. Fans paid the channel $ 99 to see the match on Saturday, but got into interruptions or poor image quality and demanded their money, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

An American from California who threw only three dollars in a machine at a casino in Las Vegas has gone home with a $ 11.8 million jackpot.

British researcher Marcus Hutchins, who once stopped one of the biggest cyber attacks, has been arrested in Las Vegas. Unknown is why he is being held.

German journalist Svea Eckert and data scientist Andreas Dewes have managed to map the surf behavior of 3 million Germans in a relatively simple way. According to The Guardian, the two have managed to expose the porn preference of a judge and the drug use of a German politician.

In the lawsuit on the rebellion against federal authorities in 2014 on the ranch of farmer Cliven Bundy, a man was convicted for the first time on Wednesday.

America takes care of what is already called the 'hearing of the century.' The 70-year-old O.J Simpson has to appear before the American desert state of Nevada on Thursday in an attempt to release early.

People who leave pets leave the wind forever. But an American animal shelter calls the woman who left her chihuahua puppy and a heartbreaking letter at a Las Vegas airport just 'brave'.

In the US state of Nevada, where gambling and prostitution are already legal, free marijuana can also be purchased from Saturday. In the night of Friday on Saturday a law came into force that makes it possible.

The Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest technology fair, is coming to Amsterdam. On October 26th there is an event in the Beurs van Berlage: CES Unveiled Amsterdam.

A shooting at a bus on the Las Vegas Strip took Saturday to a person's life. Another victim was injured. The shooter has been entrenched in the bus and refused to surrender to the police.

Taxiapp Uber is again under fire. The company would set up a secret program to remain invisible to authorities. As Uber could go unseen to work in cities where it is not yet allowed. The project, Grey Ball is called, is used inter alia in Australia, China, Italy and South Korea and in cities such as Paris, Boston and Las Vegas.

Instead of choosing safe for yet another shooter, the Amsterdam studio Guerrilla Games decided six years ago with the RPG Horizon Zero Dawn to take a new path. 'We do not throw away what we have learned from Killzone,' says Hermen Hulst, managing director. 'It has taught us to make great graphics and wonderful games.'

Phone maker Xiaomi has this year not at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A spokesperson of the Chinese brand confirmed Thursday to TechCrunch. Last year Xiaomi yet presented its flagship Mi 5 for that exchange.

Film director Francis Ford Coppola has launched a Kickstarter project to raise money for a video game based on his famous Vietnam film Apocalypse Now. He has $ 900,000 needed to create the immersive, psychedelic horror RPG.

Formula 1 has to do more with digital media such as online streaming. It says the new boss of the sport, Chase Carey, to Bloomberg. '' We do not really have a digital presence. This is an increasingly important part of developing a television strategy, '' Carey says. He does not mention potential partners.

Razer has CES technology fair closed with a hangover. The computer maker two prototypes have been stolen during the fair. Writes CEO Min-Liang Tan on his Facebook page. He does not write about what exactly is stolen. During the fair Razer presented a laptop with three screens and a projector game.

A Dutch victory at the CES in Las Vegas. Race Gamer Bono House won a match on a simulator. The 21 year old from Maastricht takes a total of $ 225,000 (213,000 euros) to take home.

The start-up Siren Care has to develop its high-tech socks won the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield. The company, with a Dutchman as co-founder and one of the directors, thus won a sum of 50,000 dollars (about 47,500 euros) on hold.

Prince Constantine Thursday night in Las Vegas launched the online TV channel startup Holland TV. So did the prince on technology CES in Las Vegas, along with Minister Henk Kamp (Economic Affairs) and Yillmaz Shoe Zwolle startup Trad Cast.

Chinese electronics brand Xiaomi has at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed its first TV. The 'computer' behind the Mi TV 4 is a separate part of the screen and can be replaced later.

PC and accessory manufacturer Razer has unveiled a remarkable laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The device, called Project Valerie, that has not one, but three screens.

Software giant Microsoft will integrate its cloud platform Azure, the digital assistant Cortana and Office 365 cars. Previously, Microsoft still plans to release Windows operating system to the car, but this strategy is the company from Redmond abandoned. The new platform, the Connected Vehicle Platform, later first shown this year, Microsoft announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

BlackBerry comes with a new cell phone. Most notable change: the QWERTY keyboard is back. BlackBerry had dropped by just to go along with the popular smartphones from Apple and Samsung.

Intel has developed a mini computer the size of a credit card. The Intel Compute Card is a competitor of the Raspberry Pi. He comes halfway through the year on the market. Then it is also known to the price.

Philips on Thursday presented an app for young parents, the uGrow. That helps a '' healthy development 'of the child. The app can be linked wirelessly to the camera and ear thermometer from Avent. Parents can also fill in the eating and sleeping times of their shoot in the app.

A fast computer is not required to play the fastest games if it is to Nvidia. The chip maker, best known for its graphics cards, announced during the CES show in Las Vegas namely GeForce Now. games can be streamed via the service to computers and Macs that do not have the correct specifications to run those games themselves.

Misfit announced at CES in Las Vegas misfit Vapor. The first smart watch with touch screen company offers fitness, sleep and heart rate trackers and GPS and can serve as a standalone music player.

GoPro launches its first drone again. The Karma comes back sometime this year on the market, GoPro made during CES electronics trade fair known. In February, the company gives details on when exactly that happens.

After Google's modular Project Ara smartphones last year put in the refrigerator, it is now the turn of LG to abandon the same idea. LG has told The Wall Street Journal. The successor to the modular G5 focuses more on design.