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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 18 – September 17, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 261 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

qoto.org · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

    qoto.org · 1 outlets

  2. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

    blog.ltse.com · 1 outlets

  3. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Let employees sell their equity

    software.rajivprab.com · 2 outlets

  2. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  5. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

    threatspike.com · 1 outlets

  6. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

    grumpygamer.com · 1 outlets

  7. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  8. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

    jamesmcm.github.io · 1 outlets

  9. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

    cnbc.com · 2 outlets

  10. Citibank's $900M Blunder

    finshots.in · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

    mango.pdf.zone · 1 outlets

  2. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

    macrumors.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

    psyche.co · 1 outlets

  2. Winamp Skin Museum

    skins.webamp.org · 1 outlets

  3. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

    cnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  5. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

    solovyov.net · 1 outlets

  6. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

    carbonbrief.org · 1 outlets

Technology 623 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

    nbcnews.com · 2 outlets

  3. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

    macrumors.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

    sfchronicle.com · 2 outlets

  2. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

    nvidianews.nvidia.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

    oculus.com · 1 outlets

  4. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

    politico.com · 1 outlets

  5. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

    aasm.org · 1 outlets

  7. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

    remarkable.com · 1 outlets

  8. Africa declared free of wild polio

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  9. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Nuclear Reactor Development History

    popularmechanics.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

    webrtcforthecurious.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

    flexboxdefense.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

    healthcareisdumb.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

    mimestream.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

    vimacapp.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

    netflixtechblog.com · 1 outlets

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