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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 10 – November 9, 2019 812 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 313 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Rejected from YC (Again)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Twitter to ban political advertising

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 40 stories

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

    aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  2. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

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

    digiday.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

  2. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  3. “Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups

    andrewchen.co · 1 outlets

  4. Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

    spun.io · 1 outlets

  7. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

    pouet.net · 1 outlets

  8. Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

  9. Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously

    sfchronicle.com · 1 outlets

  10. Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

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

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

    thegrove3d.com · 1 outlets

  3. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail

    thehustle.co · 1 outlets

  5. More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive

    blog.archive.org · 1 outlets

  6. How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

    vox.com · 1 outlets

Technology 645 stories

  1. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    theregister.co.uk · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 outlets

  3. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

    lightcommands.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Rejected from YC (Again)

    github.com · 5 outlets

  2. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  4. After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters

    npr.org · 2 outlets

  5. Twitter to ban political advertising

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  6. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

    blog.cloudflare.com · 2 outlets

  7. Firefox 70

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Bel

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    tobyrush.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

    dcurt.is · 2 outlets

  3. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

    hansdegoede.livejourna · 1 outlets

  5. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

    tryspider.com · 1 outlets

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