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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 1 – August 31, 2020 808 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 244 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.

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Using Microsoft Word with Git

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

  2. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  2. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

  3. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

  4. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

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

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

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

  8. Citibank's $900M Blunder

  9. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

  10. Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says

Sports 27 stories

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

  2. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

Show 6 more
  1. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

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

  3. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

  4. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

  5. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

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

Technology 582 stories

  1. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

  2. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

  3. TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

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

  2. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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

  4. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

  5. Mozilla Lifeboat

  6. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

  7. Africa declared free of wild polio

  8. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

  9. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

Entertainment 49 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

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

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  1. Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python

  2. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

  3. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

  4. Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut

  5. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

  6. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

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