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A new study finds that Exxon’s projections were as good as any academic's.

Jack White has shared a tribute to late guitar icon Jeff Beck, who died Tuesday at age 78. In an Instagram post, the White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather rocker writes, "Jeff Beck,…

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“Is it happy hour for you yet?” Drew Jameson asks me as a way of offering me a drink at 4 p.m. on a Friday night at the new Central Stage concert venue in Grand Center. (The answer: Yes.) Jameson is sitting inside the venue’s front room — a space that serves as a bar, ping-pong battleground and waiting area for the concert space in the back.

This is always going to be a thing with facial recognition. Hundreds of algorithms have been tested. Pretty much every single one does worse “recognizing” minorities than it does recognizing the predominant deployers of facial recognition tech: white males. In 2020, the Detroit PD managed to rack up consecutive false arrests by relying far too […]

ProPublica has found 10 institutions hold about half of the Native American remains that have not been returned to tribes.

The Complete 2022 AWS Certification Training Bundle will help you learn all about AWS while also helping to prepare you to sit 6 certification exams. Courses cover Route53, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Autoscaling, Load Balancing, RDS, RedShift, DynamoDB, EMR, VPC, and more. You’ll also learn about basic security and compliance aspects of AWS, and be able […]

Sparks shooting out of a bedroom wall socket, arcing from the main electrical panel, flickering lights, and exposed light fixtures with hanging wires – all the result of a slick repair sales pitch that made Angela Bryant’s first home a nightmare. Faced with up to $6,000 in electrical repairs to her home in St. Louis’ […]

A North City alderman wants a guaranteed income program for older residents.

U.S. House Republicans wrapped up their first week in the majority Thursday by passing with bipartisan support a bill to prohibit the Energy Department from selling the nation’s stockpile of crude oil to China or affiliated entities. The bill, written by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, would prevent releases […]

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Democrats picked up three seats in the Missouri House during the 2022 elections. Two months later, they are hopeful they may be able to capture another.

Andrew Bailey took over the office last week. Soon after, he tweeted in support of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Choosing where to raise a family is a big life decision. For those getting started, the Gateway to the West appears to be an ideal landing spot.

In the two days since Illinois' new assault-weapons ban was signed into law, multiple southern Illinois sheriffs have stated publicly they will not be enforcing it. Greene County Sheriff Robert McMillen said that the new law banning the sale of assault weapons is a “clear violation” of the Second Amendment.

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its community partners, is hosting a second open house public meeting for Future64 on January 18 between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the COLLAB Workspace in Cortex, 4220 Duncan Avenue third floor, St. Louis, MO 63110. During the meeting, engineers […]

Kendra Holmes wasn’t trying to be rude or dismissive.

St. Louis' cost of living is making it one of the most affordable cities in the country, according to a new report. SmartAsset, a financial technology company that frequently publishes studies, found that St. Louis ranks as one of the top cities “where minimum wage goes the furthest.” This really isn’t a product of the St. Louis’ minimum wage though.

A new paper in Nature claims that "disruptive" discoveries in science have been on a downward trend over the past few decades. The authors use a measure of disruptiveness that basically measures whether anyone cares about previous work once the disruptive paper has been published: The intuition is that if a paper or patent is ...continue reading "We are all waiting restlessly for artificial intelligence"

The shooting happened about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday on the parking lot of Best Western hotel, 2621 East Fifth Street in Washington.

When it gets cold in the winter, and you have to leave your car out in the elements, you’re likely looking for ways to keep your vehicle as ready to go as possible when snow or ice begins to fall.

EDWARDSVILLE - Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville announced the Fall 2022 Dean's List for the first semester. The full list of students can be found at this link: SIUE Fall 2022 Dean's List .

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