Phil is our resident superhero and his Cool Thing of the Week is a classic phone booth for his team at the wide-open and cavernous Minneapolis BuzzFeed office. While he claims it’s for them to have privacy for phone calls, Tim and I know the real reason he bought it and it’s depicted in this week’s show cover art. 😉
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Down in the Hole by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License
The Podcast
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Fantasy Sports Startup SportsHub Technologies Announces Two Acquisitions
- The Wild are wild for new, camera-equipped Snapchat Spectacles
- Minnesotans Spent $250M On Cyber Monday
Other Top Tech Stories
- This Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day, ever
- Silicon Valley Has An Empathy Vacuum
- In a world where Donald Trump is President, encryption is becoming more popular
- USB Killer, yours for $50, lets you easily fry almost every device
- AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming TV service
- Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million
- Mention: PebbleStuff
- How to download Netflix videos to your phone without destroying your data plan
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Classic phone booth for the BuzzFeed office (view a photo)
- Tim: Pebble 2 SE
- Steve: Ubuntu (v. 16) for Desktop
- Mentions: Elementary OS | Parallels
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