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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 30 – January 29, 2021 829 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 29 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sanjay Gupta's prescription for fighting off dementia

The neurosurgeon, CNN commentator and author of "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" has long studied the brain and the onset of Alzheimer's. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the recommended steps to a healthier brain, from diet and exercise to the value of sleep and soc…

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Great Software Stagnation

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

  2. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

  3. Bitcoin is a disaster

  4. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

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  1. New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

  2. Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult

  3. Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

  4. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

  5. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

  6. Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

  7. Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account

  8. Simple Bank Is Closing

  9. High Short Interest Stocks

  10. SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world

Sports 40 stories

  1. Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC

  2. GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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  1. Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

  2. Rust for Windows

  3. WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

  4. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

  5. Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock

  6. Coinbase announces proposed direct listing

Technology 599 stories

  1. Linux Running on Apple M1

  2. Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

  3. We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

Show 9 more
  1. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood

  2. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

  3. Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews

  4. Slack is down

  5. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

  6. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

  7. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

  8. Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

  9. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

  2. Show HN: I made an alarm clock

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  1. Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

  2. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

  3. Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

  4. Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid

  5. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

  6. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

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