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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 27 – April 26, 2018 816 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 116 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

threadreaderapp.com · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook Container for Firefox

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Many Ways Google Harvests Data

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

  2. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

    baekdal.com · 1 outlets

  4. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

    sapiens.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  3. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

    nymag.com · 1 outlets

  6. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

    sciencealert.com · 1 outlets

  7. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Cryptographic Right Answers

    latacora.singles · 1 outlets

  10. Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

    donorschoose.org · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  2. The End of Windows

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

    blog.frizk.net · 1 outlets

  2. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

    openbazaar.org · 1 outlets

  4. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

    affordanything.com · 1 outlets

  5. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

    ben-evans.com · 1 outlets

  6. E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

    theguardian.com · 14 outlets

  2. It's about what broke, not who broke it

    freedom-to-tinker.com · 12 outlets

  3. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

    nbcbayarea.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

    foundationdb.org · 1 outlets

  2. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

    blog.cloudflare.com · 2 outlets

  3. It's time to head back to RSS?

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Facebook Container for Firefox

    mozilla.org · 4 outlets

  7. Productivity

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  8. You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

  9. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

    batteryfreevideo.cs.wa · 1 outlets

  2. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

    plus.google.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry

    intuitive-math.club · 1 outlets

  3. Netflix FlameScope

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

    classroomies.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

    nextweeksplaylist.com · 2 outlets

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