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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 25 – August 1, 2016 197 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 214 Get it by email ↓
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Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions

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Business 15 stories

  1. Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions

  2. Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown

  3. Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene

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  1. Google Profits Surge on Strong Ad Demand

  2. Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business

  3. Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses That Sue Their Customers

  4. Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s US networks

Sports 9 stories

  1. Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

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  1. Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck

  2. Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers

  3. New attack that cripples HTTPS crypto works on Macs, Windows, and Linux

Technology 153 stories

  1. LastPass autofill exploit

  2. We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated

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  1. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

  2. Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

  3. Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

  4. Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

  5. The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes

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  1. NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over

  2. Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory

  3. What makes music sound “good?”

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