Quite an interesting set of stories to discuss this week and we also have on as our guest Mark Wilkie, CTO, for the new Who’s Driving app.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Blues Menor by EMCA L’Hospitalet under a CC by 3.0 License
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- MN Cup names eight division winners
- Hackers can take over an entire network with this tiny $35 box
- Star Tribune deletes, apologizes for C.J.’s awful column about Jacob Wetterling and Jana Shortal’s jeans
- Filling The STEM Pipeline
- Kidblog, once a free service, tries to convince users it’s worth paying for
- Mayo Clinic’s Think Big Challenge Competitors Narrow To Five Finalists
Other Top Tech Stories
This Week’s Guest
Mark Wilkie (Twitter), CTO, Who’s Driving app. Mark spent the early part of his coding career in Minneapolis. He moved to New York City and joined Buzzfeed in it’s earliest days. After leaving his role as CTO there early this year, he moved his family back to MN and is now CTO of startup Who’s Driving.
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Smart Urinal
- Tim: Super Mario Run for iOS
- Steve: Estimote (and one of their blog posts: Updated Location Beacons: 200 m range, NFC, new APIs, and more)
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