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St. Louis, Missouri.
  • An office building in St. Louis sold for $3.6 million after selling for $205 million 18 years prior.
  • Downtown St. Louis is filled with unoccupied buildings and an unwillingness to visit them.
  • St. Louis' recent office vacancy rate is at a record high 22.3% according to JLL.

A vacant office building in downtown St. Louis just sold for $3.6 million — a nearly 98



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Spotify launched its AI Playlist in beta this week
  • Spotify has launched AI Playlist, a new feature that makes playlists with a text or emoji prompt.
  • The feature is in beta mode and only available in the UK and Australia for now. 
  • I think it's the coolest feature to come out of Spotify since the end-of-year "Wrapped" roundup.

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Instacart is pushing its gig worker shoppers to tell the Seattle city council to alter a pay law that took effect earlier this year.
  • Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps seem to be trying to roll back Seattle's new gig worker pay law.
  • Their efforts targeted the workers via surveys and requests for testimonials to send to the city.
  • They say

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Troops with Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves battalion train for assaults on April 8.
  • For Ukraine to survive, it must keep Russia's larger forces off-balance.
  • Ukraine must seize back initiative and shift to a new strategy or it risks defeat, an expert warns.
  • "Ukraine has to go on the offensive," ISW's Russia expert George Barros said.

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Many people associate NASA with exploring new worlds in space, but few know it's also finding new microscopic ecosystems right here.

Years ago, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a scientist who decontaminates spacecraft bound for Mars, found a curious microorganism on the end of his swab. The bacteria, which he named bacillus pumilus, was so resilient, the usual cleaning solutions — ultraviolet light and



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A R-330BMV vehicle and Borisoglebsk-2 EW system.
  • Ukraine said it struck a powerful  Russian electronic warfare system this week.
  • Footage appears to show it had destroyed a Borisoglebsk-2 EW jamming station.
  • EW has become increasingly important in the current conflict.

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Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) execute a wet gap crossing with the 502nd Multi-Role Bridge Company, 19th Engineering Battalion on Fort Knox on April 28, 2022.
  • The US Army lacks the equipment and experience to successfully attack across a river.
  • These capabilities have atrophied and need an overhaul, an Army major argued.
  • River crossings are



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The Fallout games are synonymous with a few things: a crumbling, retro-futurist American aesthetic; brutal combat with rusty, makeshift weapons; and the old-fashioned, often deeply harmonised sounds of popular American music from the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Think Cole Porter, The Andrews Sisters, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra.

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Eagle-eyed Fallout fans will be glued to the screen of the new Prime Video adaptation, and they should be — the series is bursting with Easter eggs from the beloved Bethesda game franchise. And there's one neat reference to the game's loading screen hidden right at the very beginning.

In episode 1 of the TV series, from Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the subterranean residents of



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If you want to get in sync with your partner or belong to a highly organized friend group, and wondering how to share your Google Calendar, you've come to the right place.

Sharing your Google Calendar with someone means they can see your schedule without any tedious back-and-forth, which is a lifesaver for busy people. Before you enter into this intimate step in a relationship, make sure you know



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There's more to learning to code than picking a language and running with it. You may also have to find an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that helps you work on your projects. It's the place where you actually write your code, and