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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 3 – May 3, 2017 832 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Easy fix" to curb dangers of containers holding flammable fuel?

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Getting Started with Headless Chrome

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Uber is pushing anti-union propaganda to its drivers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. S&P/ASX 200 [XJO] (^AXJO) charts, data and news - Yahoo Finance Australia

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

    SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Stock Price, News, Quote & History  Yahoo! Finance Canada

  2. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

    privacylog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter Sues Federal Government

    usafacts.org · 2 outlets

  4. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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  1. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

    soraven.com · 1 outlets

  2. How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

    web.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Uber CEO Plays with Fire

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff

    recode.net · 1 outlets

  6. ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

    zeronet.io · 1 outlets

  7. Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  8. Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%

    w3techs.com · 1 outlets

  9. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  10. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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  1. If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  2. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

    insights.ubuntu.com · 1 outlets

  3. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  4. India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste

    gatesnotes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  6. The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

Technology 610 stories

  1. Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

    bloomberg.com · 3 outlets

  2. “Restoring Internet Freedom” Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [pdf]

    transition.fcc.gov · 2 outlets

  3. A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  3. We’re dropping Google Ads

    groundup.org.za · 1 outlets

  4. CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals

    sciencedirect.com · 1 outlets

  5. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

    lyrebird.ai · 1 outlets

  6. Build Your Own Text Editor

    viewsourcecode.org · 1 outlets

  7. How We Built r/Place

    redditblog.com · 1 outlets

  8. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    cses.fi · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego

    jacquesmattheij.com · 1 outlets

  2. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

    npr.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component

    nadbm.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key

    krypt.co · 2 outlets

  4. CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

    trisquel.info · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. Cleaver – 30-second slideshows for hackers

    jdan.github.io · 1 outlets

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