As Russia has faced a flood of sanctions for its brutal invasion of Ukraine, many telecom companies, like Lumen and Cogent, also stopped feeding and financing key Internet transit routes into the country. Other companies, like domain registrar Namecheap, made the choice to stop doing business with any current residents of Russia. While severing Russia […]
Keith Carnes was released after prosecutors announced Friday they would not retry him in the 2003 shooting death of a rival drug dealer in Kansas City.
Today is inflation day, and the BLS reports that the US inflation rate rose considerably less than than the European rate jump announced a few days ago. But it still went up a lot. The headline inflation rate increased from 7.9% in February to 8.5% in March: (Note that this chart shows headline CPI, which ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Inflation in March"
A Kansas City developer’s plans to turn the former mall into an industrial park were scrapped last year under opposition by Webb, who said residents preferred a community center. But officials have struggled to identify funding for demolition.
Miso Robotics is partnering with St. Louis-based restaurant chain Panera Bread to test its latest robot, a coffee maker that can brew the perfect cup of coffee.
Pasadena, California-based Miso said its CookRight Coffee line uses artificial intelligence to monitor key coffee metrics such as volume, temperature and time data, and combines these with predictive analytics to make a quality cup of coffee.
Panera, whose headquarters is in suburban Sunset Hills, is Miso Robotics’ first company partner…
An attorney representing the family of a man killed when an EF-3 tornado struck an Amazon Warehouse in Edwardsville says he has uncovered new information that could prove the building wasn't up to code.
When the family of Austen McEwen filed a wrongful death suit against Amazon in January, they stated their reasoning loud and clear.
“Amazon knew a tornado was coming but made the decision to have our son and others work during a peak delivery season for Amazon instead of evacuating the area with…
A pilot program at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center is training incarcerated men to code, as they prepare for their release. The first group to participate in the program graduated last month.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - A lawyer for one of the victim's families claims engineers found structural deficiencies in the Amazon facility in Edwardsville, Illinois which partially collapsed in a tornado. An EF3 tornado hit the Amazon distribution center located just off I-255 in December 2021. Now attorneys representing one of the victim's families have revealed new [...]
An unusual deal made 96 years ago is at the center of a lawsuit between two companies that both claim ownership of the Fox Theatre and the land underneath it.
Aloha Mischeaux is a St. Louis artist who was once a contestant on American Idol. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, however, all of her shows came to a halt, and she found herself at home with her roommates. Watching them work remotely all day, she decided she'd contribute to the atmosphere by providing them with a much needed boost: She'd make them coffee.