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How else do you beat the heat of a Las Vegas summer than by finding the nearest swimming pool to lounge by?

DESIblitz

Foods that are high in protein are hugely nutritious for the body. DESIblitz takes a look at some of the key uses of protein, and which high protein foods are the best for your body.

Las Vegas Weekly

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ was among 23 of the world’s best robotics teams competing in the 2015 U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Challenge Finals, an elite competition of robots and their human supervisors, on June 5-6 at the Fairplex in Pomona, California.

Poker News

Finally, the Internal Revenue Service is considering ideas to rewrite current gambling-related tax rules, including possibly lowering the threshold for mandatory reporting of slots and bingo winnings from $1,200 to $600, reports Bloomberg Business.

Bloomberg

Nothing kills the thrill of a big-money win at the casino quite like a tax form—and soon the grasp of the taxman could be felt before the jackpot celebration stops at a lucky slot machine.

Las Vegas Weekly
A 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Rebel placed eighth at an international engineering competition this past weekend. Did we mention that Rebel doesn’t have a brain?
Las Vegas Sun
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ made a strong showing at the world’s most advanced robotics competition over the weekend.
Popular Science

From the very beginning of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals, it was obvious that driving was going to be a problem for the robot contestants. The very first robots to take the field this past Friday at the Fairplex in Pomona, California showed up without their modified Polaris utility vehicles. These machines were hoofing it, using their own legs to gradually make their way down a dirt strip meant to simulate part of a disaster zone too perilous for humans. It turned out to be pretty perilous for robots, too. By not even getting into the cars, these teams were already conceding defeat in the two-day Pentagon-funded competition.