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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 3 – November 2, 2019 818 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 306 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Rejected from YC (Again)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Twitter to ban political advertising

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 38 stories

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

    aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  2. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says

    businessinsider.com · 3 outlets

  4. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    fangpenlin.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

    digiday.com · 1 outlets

  3. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

    python.cs.southern.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

  7. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

    spun.io · 1 outlets

  8. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

    pouet.net · 1 outlets

  9. Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

  10. Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously

    sfchronicle.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    thedailybeast.com · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  4. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

    thegrove3d.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 635 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    playhearthstone.com · 10 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  3. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    theregister.co.uk · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    cleantechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Rejected from YC (Again)

    github.com · 5 outlets

  3. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  4. Twitter to ban political advertising

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  5. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    leahneukirchen.org · 2 outlets

  6. Firefox 70

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  7. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. NordVPN confirms it was hacked

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Show HN: Bel

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    tobyrush.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

    hansdegoede.livejourna · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

    feastgenius.com · 1 outlets

  6. Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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