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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 16 – August 15, 2015 813 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 227 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What the ad blocker debate reveals

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    How language gives your brain a break

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Sports

    Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

  2. Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

  3. Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco

  4. Index Funds May Work a Little Too Well

Show 10 more
  1. Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’

  2. Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company?

  3. Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year

  4. A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment

  5. ‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock

  6. China stocks drop over 8%

  7. How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)

  8. Tesla Announces $500M Common Stock Offering

  9. Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings

  10. Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa

Sports 39 stories

  1. I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

  2. Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

Show 6 more
  1. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

  2. Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

  3. Windows Bridge for iOS

  4. How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

  5. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

  6. How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup

Technology 623 stories

  1. Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

  2. Firefox exploit found in the wild

  3. G is for Google

Show 9 more
  1. YC Fellowship

  2. Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)

  3. Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

  4. NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

  5. The Web We Have to Save

  6. Niantic Labs splitting from Google

  7. Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

  8. Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

  9. “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

  2. Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

  2. Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data

  3. Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody

  4. Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?

  5. From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

  6. Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

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