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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 14 – November 13, 2019 819 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 317 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

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Twitter to ban political advertising

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Open-Sources Cardboard

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 40 stories

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

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

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

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

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

  2. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

  3. “Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups

  4. Building a Developer Tools Business

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy

Sports 35 stories

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

  2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

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

  2. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

  3. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

  4. How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

  5. Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

  6. 'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows

Technology 652 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

  2. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

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

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  1. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

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

  3. Twitter to ban political advertising

  4. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

  5. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

  6. Firefox 70

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

  8. Google Open-Sources Cardboard

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

Entertainment 27 stories

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

  2. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

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  1. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

  2. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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

  4. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

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

  6. Show HN: Turn any device with a browser into a security camera

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