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2016-01-28
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 21 – January 28, 2016 189 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 28 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble

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Business 8 stories

  1. 90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble

  2. Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha

  3. The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

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  1. Facebook Climbs to 1.59B Users, Beats Q4 Estimates with $5.8B Revenue

  2. VMware Confirms Layoffs as It Prepares for Dell Acquisition

  3. You're Not Allowed to Criticize Startups, You Stupid Hater

  4. Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says

Sports 8 stories

  1. Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

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  1. Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out

  2. WeKan: Open-Source Meteor Kanban

  3. Expect Some Unicorns to Lose Their Horns, and It Won’t Be Pretty

Technology 150 stories

  1. Unikernel Systems Joins Docker

  2. Request For Research: Basic Income

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  1. Amazon's customer service backdoor

  2. Marvin Minsky dies at 88

  3. Voxel.css

  4. T-Shirts Unravelled

  5. Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show

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  1. Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it

  2. Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

  3. Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (2013)

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