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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 11 – October 11, 2019 827 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 284 Get it by email ↓
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The Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch: Learning from history

Lonnie G. Bunch III is enamored of American history. Last June he was named Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which he calls "part of the glue that holds the country together." Bunch, who oversaw the creation of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is in charge of 19 museums, 21 librari…

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Edward Snowden

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The State of Machine Learning Frameworks

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Back surgery saved him from paralysis. Then the bills arrived: over $650,000

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 54 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    fangpenlin.com · 1 outlets

  3. 20,000 Startup Ideas

    unawaz.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    skyclerk.com · 1 outlets

  6. U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  7. MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  8. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  9. Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  10. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    slate.com · 1 outlets

Sports 40 stories

  1. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

    thedailybeast.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

    jonathanwhiting.com · 1 outlets

  3. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

    thetimes.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

  6. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 599 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    playhearthstone.com · 12 outlets

  2. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 4 outlets

  3. 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

    cleantechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Interview with Edward Snowden

    justice.gov · 7 outlets

  3. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    leahneukirchen.org · 1 outlets

  4. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

    broadcast.listennotes. · 1 outlets

  5. California bans private prisons

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  6. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    einaregilsson.com · 1 outlets

  7. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  8. Broken

    tyler.io · 1 outlets

  9. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize

    m.pghcitypaper.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

    james.darpinian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  2. After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  3. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

    useguard.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

    stavros.io · 1 outlets

  6. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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