We cover many stories this week including the inspiration for this week’s show title: Apple has patented a way for your iPhone to enter ‘panic mode’ when you unlock it with a specific finger, which is sure to spark a lot of jokes like ours this week about using one’s middle finger as the ‘panic’ digit!
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: This Highway Tonight by Don Conoscenti under a Creative Commons License
The Podcast
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Story Links
Past Week’s Top MN Stories
- Angel investment tax credit pricey but has defenders
- Twin Cities start-up shows how to succeed without Silicon Valley
- Mentions
- Justin Porter, Kipsu (formerly of U of M Venture Center)
- Jeff Nelson, MN Angel Tax Program Manager, MN DEED
- Mentions
- Sprint ordered to maintain low-cost Internet for the needy
- Co-Working Space Industrious Opens In Minneapolis
- Best Buy Will Help Create The Rules For Drones In The US
- MnDOT testing drones for bridge inspections
- Pad & Quill launches new handcrafted Horween leather bands for Apple Watch
Other Top Tech Stories
- Surviving in the IoT world: Kaspersky Lab Experts Discover the Risks of Smart Home Devices
- Chrome OS is here to stay
- Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away
- Official Plex app for Apple TV now available, offers local streaming, playlists, channels, more
- The Podcasting Audience Just Got A LOT Bigger
- Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- TIP: Help your loved ones, even those who have little online presence, to be secure! (or maybe you need to follow this advice too?)
- NYTimes: Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
- Pro hacker’s advice:
- Get a new garage door opener, one resistant to rolling code openers (watch this on YouTube)
- Use 2 Step authentication (Google calls it ‘2 Step Verification’)
- Password-protect her DirecTV
- Get a password manager
- ALWAYS run updates and, in fact, switch on automatic updates wherever possible.
- Pro hacker’s advice:
- Why, at the very least, email should be VERY secure: The Value of a Hacked Email Account
- NYTimes: Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Apple Magic
- Tim: Ctrl-Walt-Delete podcast
- Graeme: Get the beautiful new Apple TV screensavers on your Mac right now
- Steve: BrightKite: Your Product Research Platform and their categories
Upcoming Events
- Ignite Minneapolis, Nov 9th, Riverview Theater
- Reverse Elevator Pitch Panel, Tuesday November 10th
- MobCon 2015, Nov 17-18th
- MHTA Tekne Awards, Nov 18th
- Techopolis 2015, November 19th, The DOJO Group
- Mobile Twin Cities event: IoT for the Holidays, Dec. 1st, 6pm, BuzzFeed Office