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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 18 – August 17, 2015 798 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 229 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. Assembly 2015 demo party winning entry

  2. I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

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

  2. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

  3. Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

  4. Windows Bridge for iOS

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

  6. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

Technology 613 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. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

  7. Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

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

  9. “Stop reverse engineering our code”

Entertainment 34 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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