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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 16 – October 16, 2019 832 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 289 Get it by email ↓
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The Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch: Learning from history

Lonnie G. Bunch III is enamored of American history. Last June he was named Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which he calls "part of the glue that holds the country together." Bunch, who oversaw the creation of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is in charge of 19 museums, 21 librari…

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Why some software developers hate Agile

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Back surgery saved him from paralysis. Then the bills arrived: over $650,000

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 53 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

    aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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  1. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    fangpenlin.com · 1 outlets

  4. 20,000 Startup Ideas

    unawaz.github.io · 1 outlets

  5. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    skyclerk.com · 1 outlets

  7. U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  8. MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  9. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  10. Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

    thedailybeast.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

    jonathanwhiting.com · 1 outlets

  3. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

    thetimes.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

  6. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Technology 611 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    playhearthstone.com · 13 outlets

  2. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 5 outlets

  3. 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    theregister.co.uk · 2 outlets

  2. Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

    cleantechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store

    github.com · 5 outlets

  4. A patent lawsuit against GNOME

    justice.gov · 5 outlets

  5. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    leahneukirchen.org · 1 outlets

  6. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

    broadcast.listennotes. · 1 outlets

  7. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    einaregilsson.com · 1 outlets

  8. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  9. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize

    m.pghcitypaper.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Bel

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

    james.darpinian.com · 1 outlets

  2. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  3. After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  4. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

    useguard.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

    stavros.io · 1 outlets

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