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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 21 – August 28, 2013 191 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 240 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

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Business 15 stories

  1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

  2. Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

  3. Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever

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  1. The one HR benefit every startup should add

  2. Selling Software To Large Businesses

  3. The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)

  4. Vasili Arkhipov

Sports 6 stories

  1. In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

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  1. Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

  2. Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase

  3. German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA

Technology 150 stories

  1. Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released

  2. Don't Fly During Ramadan

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  1. I will not do a tech interview

  2. Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus

  3. He got 1%, we can't hire him

  4. Defeated

  5. Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

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  1. Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor

  2. Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python

  3. Hong Kong’s Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods

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