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Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Tech Tuesday- 9:04The Smart Start
Four UNR students, one big drone, and DARPA
Four University of Nevada, Reno students are in Dayton, Ohio this week with a heavy-lift drone they built, up against more than 120 teams in DARPA's Lift Challenge. They fly Thursday.
- 9:18The Smart Start
Those fire cameras on the ridge are ours
The wildfire cameras watching the ridges around Reno and Tahoe are operated out of UNR, and anybody can watch them free. How the smoke detection actually works, and who pays for it.
ALERTWest, university partners · 2026ALERTWest, technology · 2026ALERTWildfire public viewer · 2026Tahoe Prosperity Center · 2026Tahoe Fund, Tahoe Project Madness winner · 2026South Tahoe Now · 2026-04-13UNR Nevada Today, NV Energy sponsorship · 2025UNR Nevada Today, Liberty Utilities sponsorship · 2026 - 9:32The Smart Start
The free stuff is embarrassingly good
Free tools that actually work and nobody advertises, plus one very common piece of scam advice that has quietly gone out of date. What to do instead when the phone rings.
- 9:47The Smart Start
Why your internet crawls at 8 o'clock
Why home internet slows down in the evening, why it really is worse out east of town, and what actually happens to a text message on its way across town.
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- 2026-08-04Tuesday, August 4, 2026You're here
Four UNR students, one big drone, and DARPA · Those fire cameras on the ridge are ours · The free stuff is embarrassingly good · Why your internet crawls at 8 o'clock
- 2026-08-03Monday, August 3, 2026
The state is holding a billion dollars and some of it is yours · Thirty bucks gets a Nevada 65-and-up into every state park for a year · His first Reno joint folded in three weeks. Then he built the car museum. · Started in a Reno garage in 2018. Five hundred employees now.
- 2026-07-31Friday, July 31, 2026
Four ways to play golf around here for under $35, walking · Sleep at 9,300 feet, twenty-five minutes from your driveway · The Spooner Lake trails are closed all week and open on the weekend · Two weeks out: the darkest sky in Northern Nevada, and it's free
- 2026-07-30Thursday, July 30, 2026
Your health plan is becoming Kaiser. Your card still works. · Nobody new can open a hospice in Nevada right now · Name one friend you made after you stopped working · You are the long-term care plan. Nobody told you.
- 2026-07-29Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The health inspector emails ahead now. Once a year. · Nevada already paid your server. Then the screen asks you. · Smallest cattle herd in 75 years, and we're a ranching state · Hearts of Gold, and the festival's a month out
- 2026-07-28Tuesday, July 28, 2026
They're taking away the phone that works when the power's out · Should a robot answer your business phone · At least 180 cameras are reading your plate, and no law about any of it · The state got hit for 1.3 million dollars. It started with one download.
- 2026-07-27Monday, July 27, 2026
Four bosses in six years, and they interviewed one person · That car insurance headline is a Las Vegas number · Twelve dollars, and no next raise on the calendar · Fourteen thousand a year for a hundred years of ranch
- 2026-07-24Friday, July 24, 2026
Sign up tomorrow, hunt this fall: Hunter Ed in Verdi · The Truckee River is fishing well right now, and it runs through town · Davis Creek's campground is closed. The trails aren't. · You don't have to drive to Tahoe to paddle. Sparks Marina's right here.
- 2026-07-23Thursday, July 23, 2026
You think Nevada taxes work like California. They don't. · The call that says you missed jury duty. It's a thief, and it's working. · Worst snow year since the eighties. They say don't worry. · You can be turned into soil now. Would you?
- 2026-07-22Wednesday, July 22, 2026
A 60-foot sign and two bridges over your downtown streets · The casinos aren't really casinos anymore · Sixteen years downtown, and Old Granite Street is gone · A record price, and your kid can't buy your house
- 2026-07-21Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Will the data centers land on your power bill? · Most 'AI' you're being sold is a chatbot with a markup · You own the tractor. You couldn't fix it. Until now. · AI is coming for these jobs. Here's the honest list.
- 2026-07-20Monday, July 20, 2026
Who I am and what this hour is · Spain won it. Now about that stadium on Kietzke · They're building a fence at Washoe Lake · Hot August Nights left the Grand Sierra