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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 2 – December 9, 2019 182 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 343 Get it by email ↓
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Woman fighting with insurance for follow-up breast cancer tests

Mammograms can save lives, but in some cases, insurance companies are refusing to cover follow-up tests ordered by doctors.

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Business 6 stories

  1. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

  2. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

  3. Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

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  1. Business Models

  2. Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats

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Sports 9 stories

  1. Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later

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  1. FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

  2. Arcade Game Typography

  3. How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games

Technology 145 stories

  1. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

  2. Firefox 71

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  1. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

  2. The Lesson to Unlearn

  3. Four fired workers file charges against Google

  4. The Great Cannon has been deployed again

  5. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

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  1. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

  2. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

  3. Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

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