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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 19 – October 19, 2019 819 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 292 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

    Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Why some software developers hate Agile

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Rejected from YC (Again)

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 51 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

    aws.amazon.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. Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

    digiday.com · 1 outlets

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

    skyclerk.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

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

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

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

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Sports 37 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. Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    thedailybeast.com · 2 outlets

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

    jonathanwhiting.com · 1 outlets

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

    thetimes.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    playhearthstone.com · 12 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  3. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    theregister.co.uk · 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. Rejected from YC (Again)

    github.com · 6 outlets

  3. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    leahneukirchen.org · 1 outlets

  4. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    einaregilsson.com · 1 outlets

  5. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  6. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. Broken

    tyler.io · 1 outlets

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

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  9. My Favourite Git Commit

    fatbusinessman.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize

    m.pghcitypaper.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Bel

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    james.darpinian.com · 1 outlets

  2. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    tobyrush.com · 1 outlets

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

    vice.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. Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

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