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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 16 – November 15, 2019 815 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 319 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

    Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Twitter to ban political advertising

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

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

  3. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

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

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

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

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

  4. Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243k transfer?

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

  6. Private Equity company acquires .org registry

  7. Building a Developer Tools Business

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

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

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

Sports 33 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 644 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. 16-inch MacBook Pro

  6. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

  7. Firefox 70

  8. John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

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

Entertainment 29 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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