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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 22 – August 21, 2020 814 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 234 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Company pauses plan to send 9,000 back to office after pushback

Epic Systems, a medical records software company, "is going to have to adhere by the same rules as everyone else," a local official said.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Response to Google open letter

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    QEMU should move from C to Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

    software.rajivprab.com · 1 outlets

  2. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Nubank acquires Cognitect

    cognitect.com · 1 outlets

  4. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

    apnews.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  6. Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  10. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 18 stories

  1. Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]

    cdn2.unrealengine.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

    bevyengine.org · 1 outlets

  2. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  3. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras

    driesdepoorter.be · 1 outlets

  5. Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business

    adamwathan.me · 1 outlets

  6. Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

    bleepingcomputer.com · 1 outlets

Technology 598 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    theverge.com · 6 outlets

  3. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

    zdnet.com · 3 outlets

  2. Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA

    buzzfeednews.com · 3 outlets

  3. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

    oculus.com · 1 outlets

  5. Del.icio.us

    del.icio.us · 1 outlets

  6. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  7. Mozilla Lifeboat

    mozillalifeboat.com · 1 outlets

  8. Thank You MDN

    ilovemdn.org · 1 outlets

  9. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    msn.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

    storycreatorapp.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

  3. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

    qrpicture.com · 2 outlets

  5. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

    vocodes.com · 1 outlets

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