Minnov8 Gang 395 – Can Tech Save The News?

Several good tech stories this week but, once again, we dust-off our “Gang Mentality” segment to ponder a question after the president of the United States inaccurately calls out major news organizations as “fake”. That question is: Will technology provide the answer to real vs. fake news, or will it take human intervention?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Slow Day Blues by A to Z Guitars under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Virtual nurse app Sense.ly raises $8 million from investors including the Mayo Clinic


• St. Paul aims to attract more innovation and technology jobs


• 100 Technology Job Openings In Saint Paul Area


• Comcast debuts Tech ETA feature to narrow down when cable guy will arrive

Gang Mentality: Will technology provide the answer to real vs. fake news, or will it take human intervention?

• BuzzFeed Tries to Break Readers Out of Their Social-Media Bubbles


• Expanding Fact Checking at Google


• Check Out Alphabet’s New Tool to Weed Out the ‘Toxic’ Abuse of Online Comments


• Trump is a media troll – so stop feeding him

Other Top Tech Stories

• Google
  
  
  
  • Google Just Discovered A Massive Web Leak… And You Might Want To Change All Your Passwords
  
  
  • Google just cracked one of the building blocks of web encryption (but don’t worry)
  
  
  
  


• J. Walter Thompson Intelligence’s Weekly Tech Roundup
  
  
  
  • Who is J. Walter Thompson?
  
  
  
  


• The Era of Thinking Computers is Here, says Ginni Rometty, Leader of IBM


• No, Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: ZeTime smartwatch hybrid


• Tim: Worona – WordPress to mobile app solution


• Steve: Trump Troll Doll Sculpture

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