The D is situated directly on the busy Fremont Street Experience, five blocks of pedestrianized bliss under a huge arched canopy of computerized lights and sound, with escalators running straight from the outdoor mall into the second floor casino.

FORBES: The D, Las Vegas

That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of fireworks still in his ears.

ECONOMIST: Michael Hart

"Avatar" is a combination of live action and photo-realistic CGI and is being touted as a huge leap forward in film technology -- likened to the first movie in sound or with Technicolor.

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