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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 6 – November 5, 2019 818 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 309 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

    Rejected from YC (Again)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Twitter to ban political advertising

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 39 stories

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

    aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  2. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

  3. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    fangpenlin.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    digiday.com · 1 outlets

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

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

    spun.io · 1 outlets

  6. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

    pouet.net · 1 outlets

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

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

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

    sfchronicle.com · 1 outlets

  9. Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 37 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 641 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    playhearthstone.com · 11 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. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 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. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

    blog.cloudflare.com · 2 outlets

  7. Firefox 70

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Bel

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    tobyrush.com · 1 outlets

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

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

    dcurt.is · 2 outlets

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

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

    hansdegoede.livejourna · 1 outlets

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

    feastgenius.com · 1 outlets

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