Technology

Urban Seed plans to grow 25 different crops, from bell peppers to beets to alpine strawberries, in high-tech greenhouses smack in the middle of Las Vegas.

National

Farm Of The Future: What Grows In Las Vegas Stays In Las Vegas

2:04pm January 23, 2017

by Sarah Feldberg

Crops like radishes, jicama and cilantro will soon be grown close to the Strip, so restaurants will have immediate access to fresh ingredients, instead of having to wait for trucks from California.

Writer and critic Jason Sheehan calls Red Dead Redemption his favorite Western of all time — surpassing even The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Arts

Reading The Game: Red Dead Redemption

1:56pm January 23, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Our occasional series on storytelling in video games continues with the epic Western Red Dead Redemption. It's the tale of a reformed gunslinger tasked with hunting down the members of his old gang.

Yes, 'World's Largest Nerf Gun' Is An Actual World Record. This Engineer Made It

8:05am January 22, 2017

Mark Rober designed a huge Nerf gun to win an office Nerf war. He talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how he designed it, and what happens when you get hit with a pool noodle at 40 mph.

A passenger gets into a car marked as participating in both Uber and Lyft.

National

Survey Finds Lyft Drivers Happier Than Uber, Though Pay Has Declined

8:10am January 21, 2017

by Laura Sydell

A survey of 1,150 drivers found that those working for Lyft made more on average than those at Uber. It also illustrates demographics of participants in the ride-hailing industry.

President Donald Trump; his wife, Melania, and other family members arrive for the presidential inaugural parade.

Digital Transition Of Power Is Not So Peaceful

7:22pm January 20, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

As with every new administration, Donald Trump and his team took over the White House website Friday.

Donald Trump inherits the @POTUS Twitter account created during the Obama administration.

On The Day Of White House Transitions, Twitter Shifts @POTUS To Donald Trump

3:46pm January 20, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

Twitter will automatically switch 13 million @POTUS followers to follow both the new Trump account and Barack Obama's archived @POTUS44 account.

Science
Arts

How Do Pheromones Really Work?

6:25pm January 19, 2017

by NPR/TED Staff

Pheromones are mysterious compounds that can make a mammal smell more sexy--but that's not true for humans. Zoologist Tristram Wyatt says human pheremones are hard to find.

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Sports

Expletive-Laden Speech By Steelers' Coach Streamed On Facebook Live

7:25am January 17, 2017

Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin warned his players to keep a low profile on social media in the run-up to Sunday's playoff game. Antonio Brown surreptitiously streamed the speech on Facebook Live.

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Takeaways From The Day Dyn Was Attacked And We Couldn't Tweet

6:38pm January 16, 2017

Last October, a cyber attack made it hard for people to access Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and other popular sites. Here's what we learned from that massive "distributed denial of service," attack.

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A suspended parking sign that was posted in London in 2015. Joshua Browder, a 20-year-old from London, who's now attending Stanford, has come up with a bot that can write letters appealing parking tickets. He claims a 60 percent success rate in cities whe

National

'Robot Lawyer' Makes The Case Against Parking Tickets

5:57pm January 16, 2017

by Arezou Rezvani

The online service DoNotPay has helped motorists in London, New York City and Seattle overturn more than 200,000 parking tickets, the creator says. Now, the service is expanding across the U.S.

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