This week Apple announced new MacBook Pros and one takeaway was what BGR wrote about in You’ll need $250 in dongles to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro. Yes, if you do buy the new MacBook Pro you’ll likely need A LOT of dongles!
The Gang discusses dongles and much more on this week’s show.
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Minnesota lands back in top 10 of tech business ranking
- Mayo Clinic is putting money & research behind Vic Gundotra’s mobile heart-health startup
- This brilliant 13-year-old figured out how to make clean energy using a device that costs $5
Other Top Tech Stories
- Twitter’s identity crisis killed Vine
- “I can retire if I want to” is a 60 minutes clip from a segment called “The Influencers” and this guy was making his money doing Vine videos…but not anymore!
- Apple News:
- Apple’s $1,499 13-inch MacBook Pro has an escape key, but no Touch Bar
- Hands-on with the new MacBook Pros, their keyboard, and the Touch Bar
- First on iMac, iPad Pro & iPhone 7, Apple’s vibrant wide color tech now comes to MacBook Pro
- Apple debuts “TV,” a TV guide and watchlist app for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad
- Apple’s HomeKit Is Proving To Be Too Demanding For Bluetooth Smart Home Devices
- Apple’s annual profits fall for first time in 15 years as iPhone sales decline
- Microsoft Event:
- Smartwatch sales are tanking
- New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery
- How These Netflix And NPR Vets Plan To Reinvent Podcasts
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Lakeville North Code Club
- Tim: Nintendo Switch
- Steve: Tesla Unveils its New Line of Camouflaged Solar Panels
Upcoming Events
- The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
- WE* Made It by MN Cup, Nov. 7th, Clockwork
- ProductCamp Twin Cities 2016, November 12, 2016 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Worrell Design, Minneapolis
- Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov 18th, Bloomington
- MinneHack, January 28-29, 2017
We cover the usual Minnesota tech stories as well as other top ones, but our guest this week is all about the cloud. Tom Iverson is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with a Minneapolis firm and we dig in to questions about cloud computing and why it’s the answer.
Tom Iverson (
Two of our top Minnesota stories had themes of privacy, security, and what happens to our digital life when we leave this earthly realm. One of the startups we discuss, 
As 2016 ramps up we have a few important stories to cover and we do. During the Security Tip of the Week our buddy Tim Elliott chimes in with another method to ensure data is wiped on your solid state drive (SSD) before you sell your computer or drive: 
TIP: How to really erase your hard drive…especially if it’s an SSD. 
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 2015 and then jump in to our 2016 prognostications.
Flash will be the missing superhero soon since even Adobe says not to use it anymore and confirms that the open standard, HTML5, has “won”. Learn more in this week’s Security Tip of the Week.
Another round of great stories this week along with Phil’s Cool Thing of the Week: the 
We cover multiple tech stories from around Minnesota and elsewhere, but our guest this week is the CEO of the hot startup 
Clay Collins – CEO, 
Performance anxiety, or fear of being in front of people and especially on-stage, can be crippling. It happens so often it even has a name we all know: stagefright.
Android ‘Stagefright’ Exploit
TIP: If you use 
Amazon touted the great deals available during