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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 30 – November 6, 2019 189 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 310 Get it by email ↓
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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

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Business 13 stories

  1. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

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

  3. Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

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

  2. The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing

  3. Keystone pipeline shut after spilling 1.4M litres of oil in North Dakota

  4. Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up

Sports 6 stories

  1. The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

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  1. Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework

  2. Which Planet Is Closest?

  3. Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)

Technology 155 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

  2. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

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

  2. Twitter to ban political advertising

  3. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

  4. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

  5. Thank You, Guido

Entertainment 6 stories

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

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  1. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

  2. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

  3. Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)

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