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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 20 – August 27, 2013 192 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

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Business 14 stories

  1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

  2. Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

  3. Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever

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  1. The one HR benefit every startup should add

  2. Selling Software To Large Businesses

  3. The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)

  4. Vasili Arkhipov

Sports 6 stories

  1. In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

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  1. Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

  2. German government warns Windows 8 is a security risk

  3. Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase

Technology 147 stories

  1. David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation'

  2. Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released

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  1. Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1

  2. Don't Fly During Ramadan

  3. I will not do a tech interview

  4. Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus

  5. Defeated

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

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  1. Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor

  2. Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python

  3. Hong Kong’s Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods

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