Minnov8 Gang 230 – Is Tech Destroying Jobs?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: Slaughterhouse Blues  Artist: Maria Daines  Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

• Opening
  • MIT Technology Review: How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
• Minnesota Stories
  • Stratasys, riding the wave of 3-D printing, expanding in Eden Prairie
  • Borsch bought two of them? The Yin and Yang of Prius
  • Lyft taxi service comes to St. Paul
  • I got a Lyft last week. Tonight, it was the new UberX’s turn
  • IFTTT adds SmartThings as a trigger connecting your house to the web!

Other Stories

• Why Microsoft Had to Buy a Phone Company
• Android KitKat is the next version of Google’s mobile operating system
• Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
• Apple News Roundup!
  • Here’s everything we’re expecting at Apple’s iPhone event 
  • Apple Tests iPhone Screens as Large as Six Inches
  • Apple’s OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October
  • Low cost iPhone and China Mobile & Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile
• Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow?
• B&H Photo/Video iPad app
• What is Babelfish? 

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s “Fundraising in the Digital Economy”. First Tuesday of every month: 3:30-4:30pm at CoCo Minneapolis
• Minnesota Developers Conference 2013 – Sept 26th 8-5pm
• Tech Cocktail Minneapolis Social – October 2, 6:30-9:00 pm, The Open Book
• Grace Hopper / Women in Computing, October 2 – 5, 7am – 5pm
  • Who was Grace Hopper?
• Minnedemo 15, October 9th: Apply to present (more event details to come)
• Life Science Lean-In, MinneAnalytics Forum, Friday, October 11, 2013 (all day)
• Ed Jam Twin Cities, October 17-19, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 15, October 19, 2013, 8 – 5pm
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23
• Startup Weekend Twin Cities 5, October 25-27, 2013, 5 – 7pm
• MobCon 2013 November 7-8