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2018-10-23
Weekly Close

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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 16 – October 23, 2018 189 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 296 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

Business 9 stories

  1. Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

  2. Who Are My Investors?

  3. The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores

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  1. Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

  2. Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations

  3. 14-year-long oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may be worst in U.S. history

  4. New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones

Sports 8 stories

  1. Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit

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  1. The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

  2. Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

  3. 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

Technology 155 stories

  1. The Single Board Computer Database

  2. Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

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  1. Paper Airplane Designs

  2. iPhones are hard to use

  3. What I loved about Paul Allen

  4. Japan's Hometown Tax

  5. Helm: Personal Email Server

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

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  1. So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale

  2. Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise

  3. Alarming study shows massive insect loss

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