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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 17 – October 24, 2018 192 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 297 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

Business 10 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 9 stories

  1. Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin

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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. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]

Technology 159 stories

  1. The Single Board Computer Database

  2. Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

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  1. Paper Airplane Designs

  2. Carbon Removal Technologies

  3. iPhones are hard to use

  4. Japan's Hometown Tax

  5. Helm: Personal Email Server

Entertainment 9 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: Websites in 2018

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

  3. Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise

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