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: