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Report: ID.me Lied About Pretty Much Everything While Providing Identification Services To The Government

2 years 11 months ago
ID.me made its disastrous news cycle debut as COVID-19 continued to wreak havoc worldwide. With ID verification and other government services mostly still being handled remotely, multiple governments continued to wrestle with these unprecedented logistical problems. ID.me appeared to be such a solution. It wasn’t. In June 2021, it was reported that ID.me was locking […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: NEWYES Scan Reader Pen 3

2 years 11 months ago
Now, you can understand any book or reading material of your choice regardless of its language. The NEWYES Scan Reader can recognize 3,000 characters per minute, has 0.3s translation speed, and its accuracy rate is as high as 98%. It also supports 9 UI languages, 55 OCR languages, 112 text translation languages, and 112 voice […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Massive Indoor Slide Park Arrives in St. Louis Area

2 years 11 months ago
A 39,000-square-foot indoor slide park, with 10 slides, air-filled basketball courts and a zip line, has opened in Chesterfield. Slick City Action Park, described as the “world’s first indoor slide park with no water” to the Ladue News, launched its facility in the St. Louis area in late November. It’s the Slick City Action Park's second location, with its first in Lakewood, Colorado.
Benjamin Simon

Republican Senator files bill to address state’s high maternal mortality

2 years 11 months ago

In May, a bipartisan proposal to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage for low-income women in Missouri to a full year after they’ve given birth was close to gaining approval from the state legislature.  But as the legislative session came to a close, the bill became collateral damage in the Republican Party’s bitter infighting, between the seven-member […]

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Rebecca Rivas

St. Louis Restaurant Openings and Closings: November 2022

2 years 11 months ago
The month of November ushered in cooler temperatures and a flurry of restaurant openings with it. Mexican cuisine was a hot commodity, with three different restaurants opening around the area: El Catrin, from the team behind the wildly successful La Catrina; Tacos Wey & Grill, a fast-casual Mexican street food spot; and Casa de Tres Reyes, from Derek Deaver, owner of Three Kings Public House and featuring the culinary firepower of chef Marcos Godines and consulting chef Andrew Cisneros (yes, his outrageously delicious sanguichitos make an appearance on the menu). One of the most anticipated openings of the month featured cuisine from across the Atlantic, however.
Cheryl Baehr

New Humans of St. Louis Book Celebrates Stories of Real-Life People

2 years 11 months ago
Imagine that you’re working on self-publishing a book. It’s been five years of ups and downs of fundraising and editing. Now, it’s finally here on your doorstep — all 3,250 copies on 12 pallets — and it’s time to get them in the hands of your readers.
Jessica Rogen

UK Removes Most Censorial Aspect Of Online Safety Bill, But It’s Still Terrible For Speech & Privacy

2 years 11 months ago
We’ve talked about the mess that is the UK’s Online Safety Bill a few times now, focusing mostly on the extremely serious concerns over requiring websites to take down “legal but harmful” speech, which is a ridiculous and impossible to meet standard that would lead to massive over-blocking of perfectly reasonable content. Many people, including […]
Mike Masnick