Minnov8 Gang 389 – A Carnival In An Open Field Staffed By Drunk Orphans

One of the stories we discovered this past week was this amusing one in New York Magazine about Joel Johnson‘s adventure moving from MacOS to Windows 10 and what he thinks about both platforms. In a nutshell he describes the two this way: “If MacOS is a sterile art gallery, Windows is a carnival in an open field staffed by drunk orphans.” Listen to the podcast for this story, and many more, in this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson

Music: Stormy Blues by Arne Bang Huseby under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Digital Health Continues To Attract Billions In Venture Capital


• St. Paul police officer develops app to better handle people with autism in the field
  
  
  
  • VITALS app (Android) and company Aware Services, LLC 
  
  
  
  


• Seagate shrinks again in Twin Cities with 155 layoffs
  
  
  
  • PCMag story on the Kingston DataTraveler
  
  
  • Samsung’s tiny, portable SSD drives
  
  
  
  


• Best Buy a distant second to Amazon in online holiday shopping
  
  
  
  • Amazon’s holiday dominance solidified by last-minute shoppers 
  
  
  
  


• Take a virtual-reality tour of the renovated, resplendent State Capitol


• Mention: The Star Wars Holiday Special

Other Top Tech Stories

• Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
  
  
  
  • PCMag: The Best of CES 2017
  
  
  • Engadget: Best of CES
  
  
  • Misfit has made its first touchscreen smartwatch, and it’s called Vapor
  
  
  • Dish’s AirTV combines 4K streaming with an over-the-air antenna
  
  
  
  


• Tech’s Impact
  
  
  
  • French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours
  
  
  • Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 staff with AI – BBC News
  
  
  
  

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Motiv Ring and PCMag review


• Tim: Sleep Number 360 smart bed


• Steve: Steadicam Volt and video

l-r: Motiv Ring; Sleep Number 360; Steadicam Volt

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 280+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2017
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  
  


• 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