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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 6 – July 13, 2020 188 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 195 Get it by email ↓
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Business 8 stories

  1. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  2. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

  3. Google to Invest $10B in India

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  1. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

  2. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

  3. Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

  4. Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

Sports 9 stories

  1. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

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  1. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

  2. Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

  3. Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open

Technology 150 stories

  1. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

  2. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

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  1. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

  2. Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

  3. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

  4. How to Understand Things

  5. Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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  1. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

  2. Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

  3. Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

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