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Netflix Makes Itself Less Useful, Removes Casting With No Explanation

2 months 2 weeks ago
All out of original ideas and facing market growth saturation, we’ve noted repeatedly how streaming companies are increasingly looking like the stodgy old traditional cable TV giants they once disrupted. That means a lot of pointless mergers, endless price hikes, a steady erosion of quality, and the slow paring back of useful features (like going […]
Karl Bode

Today's Weather: Cold with intermittent clouds

2 months 2 weeks ago
Expect a cold day with a high near 32 and a low around 27. Morning temperatures start around 20 but will feel quite cold. Winds will be light, ranging from about 3 to 9 mph, mainly from the west-northwest in the afternoon with gusts up to 15 mph. There is no rain expected today, with mostly intermittent clouds through the daylight hours. In detail, the morning will have some cloud cover but still allow patches of sunshine. The afternoon remains partly sunny with intervals of clouds and sunshine,

Monday, Dec. 8 - A bid to feed communities

2 months 2 weeks ago
The nonprofit organization Feeding America was looking for a better way to distribute billions of pounds of food to food banks each year. It used to use an algorithm to answer that question. It generated a list of food banks based on need, and when a shipment came up, Feeding America called the food bank at the top of the list. But what if a food bank didn’t need or want that donation? The answer to that problem is a market economy, of sorts.

Cold start to the workweek, brief warmup for Tuesday

2 months 2 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS β€” It's a cold start Monday morning with clouds still in place overhead. Clouds should gradually decrease Monday but temperatures will stay in the low to mid-30s. Temperatures swing upward for Tuesday with highs climbing into the 50s. Two cold fronts come through Tuesday night through Friday. The first cold front will bring [...]
Jaime Travers