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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 22 – February 21, 2019 816 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 52 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

Honored for her charity work, the poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for Everyone

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

    blog.usejournal.com · 1 outlets

  2. The complicated business of funding open source software development

    linuxjournal.com · 2 outlets

  3. EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

    dw.com · 1 outlets

  4. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

  2. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

    docs.google.com · 1 outlets

  4. U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

    recode.net · 1 outlets

  8. Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

  10. A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

    salon.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

    deepmind.com · 1 outlets

  2. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Winning the Blackbird Battle

    blog.cloudflare.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  4. Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

    usgamer.net · 1 outlets

  5. Wine 4.0 released

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  6. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

    secjuice.com · 1 outlets

Technology 617 stories

  1. From Google Analytics to Fathom

    theverge.com · 8 outlets

  2. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

    thegradient.pub · 2 outlets

  3. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

    mobile.twitter.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

    revealnews.org · 2 outlets

  2. Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  3. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

    bugs.chromium.org · 1 outlets

  6. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

    jarredsumner.com · 1 outlets

  7. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  8. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

    instant.page · 1 outlets

  2. When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

    bicycling.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

    itep.org · 1 outlets

  2. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

    postmake.io · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

    githistory.xyz · 2 outlets

  6. Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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