Strong privacy rights are a crucial first step to a healthy and productive online ecosystem. The European Union figured this out years ago, enacting the General Data Protection Regulation. In contrast, the U.S., the land of tech innovation, is tripping over its own feet at the finish line and hoping nobody notices we’ll be without […]
Yesterday the parents of a 24-year-old shot and killed by a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer in December 2019 filed a lawsuit against the City of St. Louis and the officer who shot their son. The deadly shooting happened in an alley on the 500 block of Bates Avenue in the Carondelet neighborhood. Around 9:30 p.m. on December 12, 2019, Cortez Bufford was outside a BP gas station on Bates, smoking a cigarette, when the lawsuit says that police pulled up and officer Lucas Roethlisberger yelled, “Put your junk away.”
At least two state lawmakers, including one Republican and one Democrat, are calling for free lunches and breakfast at Missouri public schools as soon as next year.
With its victory in the pitch contest, V15able won $25,000 in non-dilutive funding that founder and CEO Letisha Wexstten says will help her startup begin to generate revenue from its online platform.
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
Mick Jagger's youngest kid is a chip off the old Stone. Deveraux, the rock legend's eighth child, turned 6 years old on Thursday. His mother, Melanie Hamrick, Jagger's girlfriend, posted a photo on…
You may recall that, back in August, we wrote about the bizarre situation of a company called “Business Casual” and its CEO, Alex Edson. Business Casual makes highly produced videos. It made a few on historical topics, including taking some public domain images and modifying them significantly to make “paralax images” that added a sort […]
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Near the beginning of the movie Arthur, Arthur (played by Dudley Moore) is asked what he does for a living. He answers, "I race cars, I play tennis, I fondle women, but I have weekends off and I am my own boss." Forty years later Apple executive Tony Blevins was asked the same question as ...continue reading "Apple fires senior executive over ill-considered joke"
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