A man in his 50s from West St. Louis County has died due to extreme heat, and the St. Louis County Department of Public Health recommends taking precautions to stay safe during the summer heat.
Employers have increasingly turned to surveillance of keystrokes to make sure their workers are actually working, and this is especially true of people working from home. However, remote workers can fight back with hacks that fake keyboard strokes and mouse movements. The Wall Street Journal reports: When Teramind examined an anonymized sample of 1,000,000 workers ...continue reading "Remote workers spend less time working"
Green Day is adding another award to their trophy case.The Grammy-winning "American Idiot" trio is the latest band to earn the BRIT Billion Award, which honors artists who've racked up…
The House Oversight Committee is investigating NewsGuard, a private company, for supposed “censorship” for the crime of… offering its own opinions on the quality of news sites. The old marketplace of ideas seems to keep getting rejected whenever Republicans find that their ideas aren’t selling quite as well as they’d hoped. Up is down, left […]
Pink Floyd fans who are holding out hope for a reunion are bound to be disappointed.In a new interview with Reuters, Roger Waters was asked if there was any chance of…
A teenager is in custody for threatening and robbing a DoorDash driver at gunpoint while making a delivery last month in the city's Vandeventer neighborhood.
Quite a few people have called for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, but I'm surprised that so few have taken the logical next step: urging him to resign immediately. At the risk of being overly earnest, this is not—or shouldn't be—a matter of partisan politics. It's not about who's most likely ...continue reading "Joe Biden doesn’t need to drop out of the race. He needs to resign."
The panic over the Supreme Court's immunity decision has reached absurd levels. Today the New York Times reports that our allies can no longer trust us: “If the U.S. president is free from the restrictions of criminal law, if he has that level of criminal immunity, the other leaders of the allied nations cannot trust ...continue reading "The Trump immunity ruling is not the end of democracy"
All facial recognition tech is flawed. Some offerings may be less flawed than others, but the underlying problems (mainly, the inability to be as accurate when identifying minorities and women) remain. In Detroit, the problems became problematic fairly quickly and dramatically. Hundreds of US law enforcement agencies utilize facial recognition tech, but the Detroit PD […]
“Lawmakers made clear that they were imposing their personal religious beliefs on all Missourians when they enacted these laws," attorneys said of the appeal.
Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
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