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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 15 – November 14, 2019 821 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 318 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

    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 42 stories

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

    aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

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

    digiday.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

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

    reason.com · 1 outlets

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

    andrewchen.co · 1 outlets

  4. Private Equity company acquires .org registry

    domainnamewire.com · 1 outlets

  5. Building a Developer Tools Business

    manifold.co · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

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

    sfchronicle.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

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

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

    thegrove3d.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

    secretgeek.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  5. Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

    spaceweatherarchive.co · 1 outlets

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

    winhistory.de · 2 outlets

Technology 651 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 outlets

  2. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

    thenextweb.com · 4 outlets

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

    lightcommands.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  3. Twitter to ban political advertising

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

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

    aclu.org · 1 outlets

  5. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    apple.com · 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. John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 30 stories

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    tobyrush.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    dcurt.is · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

    hansdegoede.livejourna · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    simplescraper.io · 2 outlets

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