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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 30 – April 29, 2017 817 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 119 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Easy fix" to curb dangers of containers holding flammable fuel?

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Ffffound is shutting down

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interesting data structures: the BK-tree

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) Charts, Data & News - Yahoo Finance

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

    <a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiT0FVX3lxTE9VU1ZudlZhZ29kQUxYcFdCdU1LaEgza1V3eUh4aVFaU3l0cEpqd2I1eTNqN3lCVWlNTHZNM2JXRGVhWmpEVEdxTHRfU3ZZWlU?oc=5" target="_blank">Micron Technology, …

  2. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

    privacylog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter Sues Federal Government

    usafacts.org · 2 outlets

  4. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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  1. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

    soraven.com · 1 outlets

  2. Uber CEO Plays with Fire

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

    zeronet.io · 1 outlets

  5. Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%

    w3techs.com · 1 outlets

  7. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  8. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

    insights.ubuntu.com · 1 outlets

  2. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste

    gatesnotes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  5. The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  6. Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined

    mobile.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 609 stories

  1. Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

    bloomberg.com · 3 outlets

  2. A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

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  1. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  2. We’re dropping Google Ads

    groundup.org.za · 1 outlets

  3. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

    lyrebird.ai · 1 outlets

  4. Build Your Own Text Editor

    viewsourcecode.org · 1 outlets

  5. How We Built r/Place

    redditblog.com · 1 outlets

  6. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    cses.fi · 1 outlets

  8. SES-10 Mission

    spacex.com · 1 outlets

  9. Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

    djm.cc · 1 outlets

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component

    nadbm.github.io · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

    trisquel.info · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Cleaver – 30-second slideshows for hackers

    jdan.github.io · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera

    isitsnappy.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

    github.com · 1 outlets

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