Minnov8 Gang 387 – sNOw Emergency

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 Julio Ojeda-Zapata‘s article regarding Apps keep you abreast of snow parking, assuming they’re up to date. You might want to download one of them!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson

Music: Crawdad by Ernie Lewis under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Best Buy to Confront the Opportunity Gap by Nearly Doubling Its Teen Tech Center Network in Support of Underserved Urban Youth


• Giving a computer? Local stores have PCs, Macs for peanuts (even free)
  
  
  
  • Mention: 0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt
  
  
  
  


• Sports tech in MN
  
  
  
  • How co-working space The Pitch hopes to make Minneapolis a sports tech hub
  
  
  • Pro sports, tech and startups will mix at MinneAnalytics’ SportCon
  
  
  • Sportradar Launches ‘Acceleradar,’ Free Program For Sports Tech Startups
  
  
  
  


• Amazon’s Minneapolis team building ‘Uber for trucking’ app


• Seagate lays off 155 employees in Shakopee


• Now, control a robot with only your thought (view video)


• Famed Apple Analyst Gene Munster Goes Out With Optimistic Note


• Apple Could Pay A $35 Dividend In 2017

Other Top Tech Stories

• Amazon Conducts First Commercial Drone Delivery


• Google Intros Android Things, Developer Preview Now Available
  
  
  
  • Mention: Swift
  
  
  
  


• Apple releases iOS 10.2 w/ new emoji, Messages effects, US-only TV app, wallpapers, more


• Amazon releases new shopping app on tvOS Apple TV for Prime members, still no Prime Video

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: All-New Echo Dot (2nd Generation) – Black


• Tim: Star Wars – Rogue One


• Steve: Washington Post’s Chrome plugin automatically inserts Trump fact-checks into Twitter

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
  
  
  
  


• 1 Million Cups – St. Paul: Weekly at the James J Hill Ctr


• SportCon Sports Analytics Conference, January 10th, UST Mpls campus


• Mobile Twin Cities – January 10th


• MinneHack, January 28-29, 2017


• DevFestMN 2017 – Google Developer Event, February 4th, UST Mpls campus