Hackers around the world are undoubtedly cheering the appointment of Rudy Giuliani as an advisor to the president on cyber security for the upcoming Trump administration.
For anyone following this pick by Trump, a sad (but still amusing) story appeared shortly after it was discovered that Trump’s cybersecurity advisor choice, Rudy Giuliani, was running an easily hackable website for his “security” firm Guiliani Partners. (Note: As of late yesterday the website is offline). For more on this embarrassing, public revelation see Rudy Guiliani is an absurd choice to defend the US from hackers as well as this tweet stream about what was found out before the site was taken down.
The pick of Guiliani as head of cybersecurity does make sense, however, when you consider what President-elect Trump said in the last debate about cyber security. Perhaps Trump’s 10 year old son may end up as another one of his “cyber” advisors?
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Minnesota sees fewest venture capital deals in a dozen years
- Minneapolis Startup Vibes To Appear On ‘Shark Tank’
- OneOme Expands Reach To Five More States & OneOme website
- Target invests in Mpls. start-up that helps retailers monitor supply chains
- Amazon just poached one of Target’s rising stars to run Prime in important new markets
- Best Buy Geek Squad Informant Use Has FBI on Defense in Child-Porn Case
- If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his computer searches legal?
- Ties between Best Buy’s Geek Squad, FBI probed in porn case
- Robert Stephens, Geek Squad founder, responds to a tweet
Other Top Tech Stories
- Cybersecurity & Privacy
- iPhone 10 Year Anniversary: Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years
- Microsoft just bought an AI startup that can outperform Facebook and Google
- Nintendo’s Switch already gets right what the Wii U got wrong
- A cautionary tale…Lily Drone is dead despite $34 million in pre-orders
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: ProTech Privacy Webcam cover
- Tim: Cronovo Smartwatch
- Steve: The Obamas bid farewell with a VR White House tour
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One of the stories we discovered this past week was 
It’s our annual predictions show and, while we cover a handful of Minnesota and other top tech stories this past week, we focus on our “hits and misses” from predicting 2016 and then jump in to our 2017 prognostications.
This week’s snow emergency turned in to a ‘no’ emergency in our view, but if you live in a place where towing cars is a much-needed winter activity then you should listen to our discussion about 
This week we interview Katie Jones from Atique to learn more about their combination of vintage jewelry and virtual reality. We also run-down the week’s tech news including Julio’s picks for Minnesota-made holiday tech gifts, A Klingon Christmas Carol and why everyone should have a Ring doorbell.
This Week’s Guest
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. 😉
Did you know that 
Tuesday’s election brought Donald Trump to president-elect status and the tech industry isn’t so sure what that means. The short answer is yes, tech will experience a Trump effect but listen for the longer term effect and take a peek at the “Election and Technology” links below for more perspective.
We kickoff the show about 
This week Apple announced 