Target Stores has an Internet of Things concept in San Francisco? We discuss that and a bit about Apple Homekit, Google’s Project Brillo and Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Azure as IoT platforms. With Target in the game as a mass market retailer, does this mean IoT has hit the mainstream? Find out on this week’s show.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: Walking the Streets by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a Creative Commons License.
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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories
- Target opens a ministore for the Internet of Things
- Medtronic made ‘smartest companies’ list
- Minneapolis ranks fourth nationwide for digital health VC funding
- CoCo to open co-working space in northeast Minneapolis
Other Top Tech Stories
- Is Android the New Windows?
- Analysis: Microsoft is Scaling Back on Windows Phone Dramatically
- Microsoft to devs: We want your iOS and Android apps
- Apple’s HomeKit Is Promising, But It Needs More Work
- Apple Music Review: Behind a Messy Interface Is Music’s Next Big Leap
- Steve Jobs trailer: watch an unrecognizable Michael Fassbender in the first extended look
- Tampa, St. Louis, and Orlando Remain the Top Cities for Malware in the First Half of 2015
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week (SSTotW)
TIP: Critical Adobe Flash Security Updates. Uninstall Adobe Flash (or at least update) NOW.
What happened: Controversial company Hacking Team was hacked & security researchers around the world dig through the hacker’s release of gigabytes of data. In that data, researcher Brian Krebs discovers Hacking Team was exploiting a previously unknown hole in Flash: Adobe to Patch Hacking Team’s Flash Zero-Day
- Brian Krebs Update just before this podcast’s recording: Adobe To Fix Another Hacking Team Zero-Day (two days later)
- Brian Krebs Update just before this podcast’s recording: Adobe To Fix Another Hacking Team Zero-Day (two days later)
- Complete overview: How spyware peddler Hacking Team was publicly dismantled
- How to Uninstall Flash
- Brian Krebs knows how to stay safe online…but even he has uninstalled Flash
- Use these uninstallers:
- Windows
- Mac
- Google Chrome uses its own Flash player. Here is how to disable it.
- Or use this Chrome extension: Flash Control
- How to Uninstall Flash Player in Linux
Cool Thing of the Week (CTotW)
- Phil: Visual The 3D social media app for virtual reality. Coming soon to Samsung Gear VR and Oculus DK2.
- Tim: CTotW update! BBC Micro Bit computer’s final design revealed
- Graeme: (not on this week)
- Steve: iClever® 6-Port 50W 10A Fast USB Desktop Charger – $26
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