Minnov8 Gang 395 – Can Tech Save The News‪?‬ Minnov8

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: a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/560181280/trump-troll-doll-sculpture-by-chuck-williams/"...