Here in Southern California we got only a partial total eclipse, but the good news is that we actually got to see it. The skies were clear as a bell. So behold our mighty sun being eaten by our mere moon. But it would soon have its revenge.
While some people lose their appetite after someone dies, Eddie Van Halen’s family apparently didn’t have that problem. Speaking to People, his ex-wife, actress Valerie Bertinelli, revealed that they ordered a…
As Cardinal season got underway last week, a different season was already in full swing: the sprint to collect signatures to get a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the Missouri ballot. If pro-choice activists can collect 171,000 signatures, Missourians will get a chance to vote this fall on whether abortion should be legal up until the point of fetal viability. Last Thursday, as a sea of red and white streamed into Busch Stadium, we caught up with Dana Sandweiss, who runs the Access MO political action committee.
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago has performed yet another version of a familiar experiment where they send identical resumes to different companies with only one difference: some resumes have distinctively white names (Misty, Brandon) and some have distinctively Black names (Latisha, Tyrone). Then they tally up the number ...continue reading "Here are 108 companies, graded from most to least racist"
Every few years, it seems, we’re reminded of the incredible number of dependencies built into the software we all rely on. Remember kik? Or Chef Sugar? Or any number of similar situations? The xkcd comic on dependency is so well known for a reason. So, the backdoor that was discovered in xz utils a week […]
Geezer Butler has announced a live event during which he'll discuss his 2023 memoir, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond.The show takes place on May 22 in…
St. Louis-based Surdex Corp., a family-owned firm that uses a fleet of aircraft to create mapping imagery and gather geospatial data, will now be part of a public company after the $44M deal.
The sun is reappearing from behind the moon as the total solar eclipse leaves North America. There won’t be another coast-to-coast spectacle on the continent until 2045. Crowds cheered from Mexico to Canada as the spectacle unfolded. The weather forecast was cloudy for many places, but viewers were able to see the eclipse in many [...]
Ringo Starr is ready to drop some new music.The Beatles drummer announced that the new song, “February Sky,” will be released Friday, April 12, giving fans their first taste of…
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